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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 455 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  5. 5.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  16. 16.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  18. 18.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Hindi
  2. Tirukkural
  3. 18
  4. English
  5. False
  6. Sanskrit
  7. Awadhi
  8. False
  9. Rama
  10. 18
  11. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. Tulsidas
  13. Alice in Wonderland
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. Krishna
  16. Wings of Fire
  17. Mowgli
  18. True
  19. 5
  20. True
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Thiruvalluvar
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Ramcharitmanas
  26. Sanskrit
  27. Ved Vyasa
  28. False
  29. Premchand
  30. False
  31. Valmiki
  32. the Ramayana
  33. animal stories
  34. Kalidasa
  35. False
  36. English
  37. False
  38. False
  39. False
  40. True

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