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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 887 · 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.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  6. 6.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  37. 37.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. False
  3. Sanskrit
  4. True
  5. Premchand
  6. True
  7. True
  8. True
  9. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. False
  11. True
  12. Rudyard Kipling
  13. Premchand
  14. Hindi
  15. False
  16. 18
  17. False
  18. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. the Panchatantra
  21. False
  22. Kalidasa
  23. 18
  24. False
  25. The Jungle Book
  26. False
  27. the Mahabharata
  28. False
  29. Krishna
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Alice in Wonderland
  33. False
  34. False
  35. 5
  36. Sanskrit
  37. False
  38. Awadhi
  39. Tirukkural
  40. Sanskrit

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