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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 554 · 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.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  8. 8.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

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

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