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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 631 · 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 Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  13. 13.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Wings of Fire
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. Premchand
  5. 18
  6. Sanskrit
  7. Hindi
  8. English
  9. Tulsidas
  10. False
  11. Tamil
  12. Rama
  13. False
  14. Bengali
  15. Premchand
  16. False
  17. True
  18. 5
  19. 18
  20. Mowgli
  21. animal stories
  22. Sanskrit
  23. True
  24. False
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. Sanskrit
  27. True
  28. Rabindranath Tagore
  29. Krishna
  30. False
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Idgah
  34. Ramcharitmanas
  35. False
  36. True
  37. True
  38. True
  39. True
  40. English

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