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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 89 · 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) True (b) False
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  3. 3.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  8. 8.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  22. 22.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  26. 26.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Awadhi
  3. True
  4. animal stories
  5. Sanskrit
  6. 5
  7. Ramcharitmanas
  8. False
  9. False
  10. Sanskrit
  11. False
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. False
  14. Krishna
  15. Rama
  16. Premchand
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 18
  20. Idgah
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. True
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Tamil
  26. the Ramayana
  27. 18
  28. English
  29. True
  30. True
  31. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. False
  33. True
  34. the Panchatantra
  35. False
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Tirukkural
  40. True

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