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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 493 · 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: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  25. 25.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Thiruvalluvar
  5. Vishnu Sharma
  6. Sanskrit
  7. Mowgli
  8. False
  9. Tulsidas
  10. 18
  11. Ved Vyasa
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Awadhi
  16. Gitanjali
  17. True
  18. Premchand
  19. True
  20. 18
  21. 5
  22. True
  23. English
  24. Sanskrit
  25. False
  26. Sanskrit
  27. Tamil
  28. Hindi
  29. True
  30. The Jungle Book
  31. False
  32. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Rabindranath Tagore
  36. False
  37. Krishna
  38. True
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. Bengali

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