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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 199 · 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 The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. Sanskrit
  3. 18
  4. Premchand
  5. False
  6. Krishna
  7. False
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Hindi
  10. English
  11. the Ramayana
  12. Premchand
  13. Awadhi
  14. False
  15. 5
  16. Meghaduta
  17. Vishnu Sharma
  18. False
  19. The Jungle Book
  20. Kalidasa
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Valmiki
  23. False
  24. False
  25. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. True
  27. animal stories
  28. Ved Vyasa
  29. True
  30. True
  31. Godan
  32. 18
  33. Rama
  34. False
  35. Tirukkural
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Tulsidas
  39. True
  40. False

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