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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 951 · 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 Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Ved Vyasa
  3. Premchand
  4. Tulsidas
  5. Tirukkural
  6. the Ramayana
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. True
  9. 5
  10. Kalidasa
  11. Mowgli
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. False
  15. False
  16. Premchand
  17. Sanskrit
  18. English
  19. Bengali
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Ramcharitmanas
  23. Alice in Wonderland
  24. 18
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. 18
  28. False
  29. The Jungle Book
  30. English
  31. True
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Sanskrit
  35. True
  36. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  37. True
  38. English
  39. False
  40. False

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