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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 613 · 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: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Answer key

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

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