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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 98 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  6. 6.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  22. 22.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

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

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