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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 390 · 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) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  24. 24.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  40. 40.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna

Answer key

  1. Ramcharitmanas
  2. False
  3. Sanskrit
  4. 5
  5. Idgah
  6. True
  7. True
  8. the Panchatantra
  9. Thiruvalluvar
  10. Valmiki
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Sanskrit
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. True
  15. 18
  16. True
  17. Mowgli
  18. False
  19. The Jungle Book
  20. Vishnu Sharma
  21. Rama
  22. Ved Vyasa
  23. animal stories
  24. Gitanjali
  25. False
  26. Tulsidas
  27. False
  28. True
  29. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. False
  31. Tamil
  32. Awadhi
  33. Hindi
  34. True
  35. False
  36. True
  37. English
  38. True
  39. English
  40. Krishna

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