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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 714 · 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 Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  12. 12.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  39. 39.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. Tulsidas
  3. Krishna
  4. 18
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. 5
  7. animal stories
  8. True
  9. Sanskrit
  10. Alice in Wonderland
  11. Mowgli
  12. False
  13. True
  14. True
  15. Awadhi
  16. Ved Vyasa
  17. Sanskrit
  18. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. Lewis Carroll
  21. True
  22. False
  23. Sanskrit
  24. True
  25. False
  26. the Ramayana
  27. False
  28. False
  29. Kalidasa
  30. Vishnu Sharma
  31. True
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. Hindi
  34. Tamil
  35. True
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Rabindranath Tagore
  39. False
  40. Rudyard Kipling

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