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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 638 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  5. 5.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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