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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 971 · 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.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. The Jungle Book
  2. False
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. Valmiki
  5. 5
  6. False
  7. 18
  8. True
  9. True
  10. True
  11. False
  12. True
  13. Ramcharitmanas
  14. animal stories
  15. False
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. 18
  18. Thiruvalluvar
  19. Ved Vyasa
  20. True
  21. Premchand
  22. the Panchatantra
  23. Bengali
  24. True
  25. Vishnu Sharma
  26. Idgah
  27. False
  28. Rama
  29. False
  30. True
  31. Tulsidas
  32. English
  33. English
  34. Gitanjali
  35. Premchand
  36. Krishna
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Meghaduta
  39. True
  40. False

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