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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 733 · 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: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  6. 6.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 5
  3. 18
  4. Rudyard Kipling
  5. the Panchatantra
  6. Gitanjali
  7. True
  8. False
  9. Premchand
  10. Tulsidas
  11. Valmiki
  12. Sanskrit
  13. False
  14. English
  15. True
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. True
  19. False
  20. English
  21. Rama
  22. False
  23. English
  24. Kalidasa
  25. the Ramayana
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. Mowgli
  29. True
  30. Godan
  31. False
  32. False
  33. False
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. False
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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