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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 542 · 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 Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  30. 30.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas

Answer key

  1. Tirukkural
  2. Vishnu Sharma
  3. True
  4. English
  5. Godan
  6. True
  7. True
  8. animal stories
  9. True
  10. False
  11. Idgah
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Rudyard Kipling
  14. Premchand
  15. True
  16. Krishna
  17. False
  18. Tulsidas
  19. Gitanjali
  20. 5
  21. False
  22. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. Premchand
  24. False
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. False
  27. Rama
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Bengali
  30. the Mahabharata
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Sanskrit
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. Lewis Carroll
  37. 18
  38. True
  39. False
  40. Rabindranath Tagore

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