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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 713 · 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: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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