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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 92 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  10. 10.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  24. 24.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Meghaduta
  3. Rama
  4. 5
  5. 18
  6. Tamil
  7. False
  8. False
  9. Krishna
  10. True
  11. the Ramayana
  12. False
  13. Lewis Carroll
  14. Thiruvalluvar
  15. Valmiki
  16. False
  17. Awadhi
  18. Mowgli
  19. Hindi
  20. Ramcharitmanas
  21. True
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. Sanskrit
  24. Alice in Wonderland
  25. Bengali
  26. True
  27. True
  28. Kalidasa
  29. True
  30. Tirukkural
  31. False
  32. False
  33. 18
  34. the Panchatantra
  35. The Jungle Book
  36. English
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. True

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