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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

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

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