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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 282 · 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 Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. True
  3. True
  4. Valmiki
  5. Gitanjali
  6. Mowgli
  7. Tirukkural
  8. True
  9. 18
  10. animal stories
  11. Awadhi
  12. English
  13. The Jungle Book
  14. False
  15. Tamil
  16. Kalidasa
  17. Lewis Carroll
  18. Ved Vyasa
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. Sanskrit
  21. 5
  22. Krishna
  23. False
  24. Vishnu Sharma
  25. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. False
  27. Rama
  28. Godan
  29. False
  30. False
  31. True
  32. False
  33. Ramcharitmanas
  34. Wings of Fire
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. True
  37. Bengali
  38. False
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. True

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