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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 295 · 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.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  10. 10.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

  1. Ramcharitmanas
  2. the Ramayana
  3. Rama
  4. True
  5. True
  6. False
  7. Meghaduta
  8. 18
  9. Hindi
  10. True
  11. Bengali
  12. Godan
  13. Krishna
  14. Gitanjali
  15. 5
  16. Sanskrit
  17. False
  18. Sanskrit
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. Tirukkural
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. The Jungle Book
  24. Vishnu Sharma
  25. Awadhi
  26. True
  27. False
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Valmiki
  30. animal stories
  31. Rudyard Kipling
  32. Rabindranath Tagore
  33. False
  34. True
  35. True
  36. Premchand
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. True
  39. Idgah
  40. the Panchatantra

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