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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 790 · 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 Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  6. 6.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  9. 9.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  24. 24.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Tulsidas
  3. Valmiki
  4. animal stories
  5. Mowgli
  6. False
  7. 18
  8. Bengali
  9. False
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Sanskrit
  12. Ramcharitmanas
  13. 5
  14. Rama
  15. Thiruvalluvar
  16. Meghaduta
  17. True
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. True
  20. Krishna
  21. True
  22. True
  23. English
  24. the Mahabharata
  25. Ved Vyasa
  26. English
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. False
  29. 18
  30. False
  31. English
  32. Hindi
  33. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. the Ramayana
  38. Premchand
  39. False
  40. Kalidasa

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