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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 947 · 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: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  25. 25.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil

Answer key

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

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