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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 730 · 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.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  3. 3.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  21. 21.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  24. 24.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  25. 25.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki

Answer key

  1. Godan
  2. English
  3. True
  4. Idgah
  5. the Ramayana
  6. False
  7. 18
  8. False
  9. Sanskrit
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Premchand
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. Vishnu Sharma
  14. Hindi
  15. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. False
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Mowgli
  21. True
  22. True
  23. Krishna
  24. Alice in Wonderland
  25. Wings of Fire
  26. True
  27. False
  28. Awadhi
  29. animal stories
  30. English
  31. True
  32. 5
  33. Premchand
  34. 18
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Meghaduta
  39. Tulsidas
  40. Kalidasa

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