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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

  1. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  2. False
  3. Hindi
  4. Godan
  5. Krishna
  6. Rama
  7. Sanskrit
  8. Mowgli
  9. 18
  10. True
  11. False
  12. the Ramayana
  13. Rudyard Kipling
  14. True
  15. 18
  16. 5
  17. Thiruvalluvar
  18. True
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. True
  21. English
  22. False
  23. False
  24. Sanskrit
  25. True
  26. False
  27. Kalidasa
  28. Alice in Wonderland
  29. English
  30. False
  31. True
  32. True
  33. animal stories
  34. True
  35. The Jungle Book
  36. Vishnu Sharma
  37. Idgah
  38. True
  39. Valmiki
  40. True

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