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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

  1. Vishnu Sharma
  2. Sanskrit
  3. Rama
  4. Mowgli
  5. Premchand
  6. Idgah
  7. Lewis Carroll
  8. Sanskrit
  9. 18
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Rudyard Kipling
  12. True
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Valmiki
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. True
  18. False
  19. Krishna
  20. False
  21. True
  22. 5
  23. False
  24. True
  25. 18
  26. Hindi
  27. Kalidasa
  28. Alice in Wonderland
  29. Kalidasa
  30. Ramcharitmanas
  31. Godan
  32. True
  33. Ved Vyasa
  34. Sanskrit
  35. Awadhi
  36. False
  37. True
  38. The Jungle Book
  39. the Ramayana
  40. Sanskrit

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