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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 288 · 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.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English

Answer key

  1. True
  2. False
  3. 18
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. Awadhi
  6. 18
  7. Sanskrit
  8. Rama
  9. Gitanjali
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Mowgli
  12. False
  13. the Ramayana
  14. 5
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Bengali
  17. English
  18. Valmiki
  19. True
  20. False
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. Tirukkural
  24. Thiruvalluvar
  25. Tamil
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Ved Vyasa
  29. True
  30. Wings of Fire
  31. Kalidasa
  32. Ramcharitmanas
  33. False
  34. Godan
  35. False
  36. English
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Krishna
  40. English

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