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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 552 · 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 Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories

Answer key

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

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