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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 734 · 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: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  22. 22.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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