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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 255 · 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 Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  6. 6.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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