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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 225 · 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 wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  15. 15.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  18. 18.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

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

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