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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 567 · 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: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  32. 32.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas

Answer key

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

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