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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 751 · 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: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  36. 36.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Sanskrit
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. English
  5. Kalidasa
  6. 18
  7. False
  8. Valmiki
  9. 18
  10. Krishna
  11. Meghaduta
  12. Tulsidas
  13. False
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. the Mahabharata
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Vishnu Sharma
  19. Lewis Carroll
  20. Tirukkural
  21. animal stories
  22. Gitanjali
  23. False
  24. False
  25. True
  26. Premchand
  27. Hindi
  28. True
  29. Alice in Wonderland
  30. Godan
  31. Ramcharitmanas
  32. True
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. Kalidasa
  35. Tamil
  36. The Jungle Book
  37. 5
  38. Thiruvalluvar
  39. False
  40. English

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