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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 378 · 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: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  16. 16.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  29. 29.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Sanskrit
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Vishnu Sharma
  5. the Panchatantra
  6. True
  7. The Jungle Book
  8. True
  9. Meghaduta
  10. English
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Alice in Wonderland
  14. True
  15. Rama
  16. False
  17. Rabindranath Tagore
  18. True
  19. False
  20. the Ramayana
  21. True
  22. Hindi
  23. Tulsidas
  24. False
  25. 18
  26. Kalidasa
  27. Ved Vyasa
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Wings of Fire
  30. Tirukkural
  31. False
  32. Gitanjali
  33. True
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. Krishna
  36. Rudyard Kipling
  37. 18
  38. Idgah
  39. False
  40. Sanskrit

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