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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 488 · 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: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  4. 4.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  12. 12.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan

Answer key

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

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