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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 463 · 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 Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Awadhi
  2. Mowgli
  3. 18
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Bengali
  7. Premchand
  8. False
  9. Thiruvalluvar
  10. Idgah
  11. True
  12. True
  13. Ramcharitmanas
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. Lewis Carroll
  16. English
  17. 18
  18. Vishnu Sharma
  19. English
  20. Meghaduta
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. Krishna
  23. 5
  24. Premchand
  25. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. True
  27. Sanskrit
  28. Tirukkural
  29. Rudyard Kipling
  30. False
  31. True
  32. False
  33. the Ramayana
  34. Rama
  35. False
  36. Tulsidas
  37. Sanskrit
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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