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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

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

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