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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 620 · 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: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  5. 5.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

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

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