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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 121 · 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 Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Awadhi
  2. Rama
  3. Valmiki
  4. 5
  5. Mowgli
  6. Godan
  7. The Jungle Book
  8. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. False
  11. English
  12. False
  13. False
  14. True
  15. True
  16. 18
  17. the Ramayana
  18. Tamil
  19. Thiruvalluvar
  20. True
  21. True
  22. the Panchatantra
  23. animal stories
  24. True
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. False
  27. Rudyard Kipling
  28. Tirukkural
  29. Kalidasa
  30. True
  31. Ramcharitmanas
  32. False
  33. Kalidasa
  34. Krishna
  35. 18
  36. Tulsidas
  37. False
  38. Gitanjali
  39. False
  40. False

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