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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 987 · 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 Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  16. 16.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. Ramcharitmanas
  2. 5
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. 18
  5. 18
  6. Mowgli
  7. True
  8. True
  9. Tulsidas
  10. Sanskrit
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. False
  13. English
  14. True
  15. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Godan
  19. False
  20. True
  21. True
  22. True
  23. Awadhi
  24. Lewis Carroll
  25. Rudyard Kipling
  26. Sanskrit
  27. Sanskrit
  28. Rabindranath Tagore
  29. False
  30. Wings of Fire
  31. True
  32. Kalidasa
  33. the Ramayana
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. The Jungle Book
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Sanskrit

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