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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 224 · 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 Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  13. 13.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

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

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