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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 278 · 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 which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  22. 22.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Mowgli
  3. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. the Ramayana
  5. Premchand
  6. Kalidasa
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. True
  9. Wings of Fire
  10. 18
  11. True
  12. True
  13. True
  14. True
  15. the Mahabharata
  16. True
  17. Sanskrit
  18. True
  19. False
  20. False
  21. Sanskrit
  22. False
  23. animal stories
  24. Meghaduta
  25. Vishnu Sharma
  26. True
  27. Rama
  28. True
  29. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. False
  31. False
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Hindi
  35. Gitanjali
  36. True
  37. False
  38. English
  39. Tirukkural
  40. True

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