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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 628 · 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: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  35. 35.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  36. 36.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. Sanskrit
  4. Valmiki
  5. Ved Vyasa
  6. Kalidasa
  7. True
  8. Tulsidas
  9. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. True
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. 18
  13. Godan
  14. Mowgli
  15. English
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. True
  18. Rabindranath Tagore
  19. False
  20. False
  21. 5
  22. True
  23. English
  24. Vishnu Sharma
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. Ramcharitmanas
  27. Sanskrit
  28. the Ramayana
  29. Alice in Wonderland
  30. 18
  31. False
  32. Sanskrit
  33. False
  34. Sanskrit
  35. Wings of Fire
  36. animal stories
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Thiruvalluvar

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