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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 605 · 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: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  4. 4.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  9. 9.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 5
  3. Rama
  4. True
  5. Sanskrit
  6. 18
  7. True
  8. Hindi
  9. True
  10. True
  11. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. Wings of Fire
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. Premchand
  15. Valmiki
  16. False
  17. English
  18. False
  19. 18
  20. The Jungle Book
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. English
  23. False
  24. True
  25. True
  26. Premchand
  27. True
  28. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. the Panchatantra
  30. Krishna
  31. True
  32. False
  33. Lewis Carroll
  34. Tulsidas
  35. True
  36. the Ramayana
  37. Alice in Wonderland
  38. False
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. Sanskrit

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