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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 95 · 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: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  19. 19.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 18
  3. False
  4. False
  5. 5
  6. Meghaduta
  7. Kalidasa
  8. Tirukkural
  9. the Ramayana
  10. Vishnu Sharma
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. 18
  13. Tulsidas
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. True
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Mowgli
  19. False
  20. True
  21. False
  22. Alice in Wonderland
  23. True
  24. animal stories
  25. True
  26. Premchand
  27. Ramcharitmanas
  28. Hindi
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. Premchand
  32. True
  33. English
  34. Krishna
  35. Godan
  36. False
  37. Rama
  38. Bengali
  39. Rabindranath Tagore
  40. False

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