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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 195 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  31. 31.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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