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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 412 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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