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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 83 · 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: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  11. 11.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali

Answer key

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

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