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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 465 · 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.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  8. 8.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  24. 24.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Rama
  3. Meghaduta
  4. Premchand
  5. False
  6. the Ramayana
  7. Sanskrit
  8. True
  9. True
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. True
  12. Thiruvalluvar
  13. True
  14. Vishnu Sharma
  15. Mowgli
  16. English
  17. Gitanjali
  18. Bengali
  19. Wings of Fire
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. False
  22. Tirukkural
  23. Hindi
  24. True
  25. 5
  26. Tamil
  27. True
  28. Godan
  29. False
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Valmiki
  33. Premchand
  34. animal stories
  35. English
  36. Sanskrit
  37. True
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Awadhi

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