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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 959 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  2. 2.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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