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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 501 · 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 the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  2. 2.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  4. 4.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Godan
  3. Sanskrit
  4. False
  5. Ved Vyasa
  6. False
  7. Krishna
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Alice in Wonderland
  10. True
  11. False
  12. the Ramayana
  13. False
  14. True
  15. False
  16. True
  17. False
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. 5
  20. The Jungle Book
  21. True
  22. False
  23. Meghaduta
  24. Tulsidas
  25. Premchand
  26. Hindi
  27. True
  28. Rabindranath Tagore
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. True
  35. 18
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Thiruvalluvar
  39. True
  40. Rudyard Kipling

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