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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 556 · 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) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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