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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 739 · 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: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  24. 24.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

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

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