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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 616 · 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) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. True
  3. 5
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. 18
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. 18
  9. Krishna
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Sanskrit
  12. True
  13. Tirukkural
  14. False
  15. Rama
  16. False
  17. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. True
  19. English
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Kalidasa
  22. True
  23. Ramcharitmanas
  24. False
  25. False
  26. Rabindranath Tagore
  27. True
  28. the Ramayana
  29. Premchand
  30. Ved Vyasa
  31. False
  32. Tulsidas
  33. True
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. False
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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