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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 915 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  4. 4.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English

Answer key

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

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