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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 696 · 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.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  15. 15.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. Wings of Fire
  3. True
  4. Tulsidas
  5. False
  6. 18
  7. The Jungle Book
  8. 5
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Bengali
  12. Tamil
  13. True
  14. English
  15. False
  16. True
  17. False
  18. False
  19. False
  20. True
  21. False
  22. False
  23. Premchand
  24. True
  25. Gitanjali
  26. True
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. True
  32. False
  33. the Panchatantra
  34. True
  35. False
  36. English
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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