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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 604 · 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) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Sanskrit
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. Kalidasa
  5. Tirukkural
  6. True
  7. 5
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. True
  10. Vishnu Sharma
  11. False
  12. Bengali
  13. the Ramayana
  14. False
  15. English
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  18. Gitanjali
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. False
  21. Godan
  22. Premchand
  23. True
  24. the Panchatantra
  25. Krishna
  26. English
  27. True
  28. True
  29. Tulsidas
  30. True
  31. False
  32. True
  33. 18
  34. True
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. False
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Lewis Carroll

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