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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 521 · 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.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  23. 23.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  33. 33.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali

Answer key

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

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