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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 757 · 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: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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