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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 569 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  6. 6.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas

Answer key

  1. True
  2. the Ramayana
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. Bengali
  5. Tirukkural
  6. False
  7. English
  8. animal stories
  9. Sanskrit
  10. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. English
  12. False
  13. True
  14. False
  15. False
  16. Wings of Fire
  17. 18
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. Valmiki
  21. Sanskrit
  22. English
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Idgah
  26. Ved Vyasa
  27. 18
  28. False
  29. False
  30. False
  31. 5
  32. Mowgli
  33. Premchand
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. False
  36. Rudyard Kipling
  37. False
  38. Awadhi
  39. True
  40. Gitanjali

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