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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 318 · 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: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  4. 4.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  15. 15.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  33. 33.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  36. 36.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

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

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