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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 637 · 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) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  14. 14.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

  1. True
  2. True
  3. Ramcharitmanas
  4. True
  5. False
  6. Krishna
  7. True
  8. Sanskrit
  9. 18
  10. the Ramayana
  11. Premchand
  12. Awadhi
  13. Rabindranath Tagore
  14. False
  15. Tamil
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. 5
  18. True
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Rama
  22. True
  23. Mowgli
  24. the Panchatantra
  25. English
  26. English
  27. Sanskrit
  28. Vishnu Sharma
  29. Godan
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Meghaduta
  33. True
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Tulsidas
  38. True
  39. Lewis Carroll
  40. Premchand

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