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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 854 · 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 Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  16. 16.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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