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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 557 · 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 the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  31. 31.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Valmiki
  2. Tulsidas
  3. True
  4. 18
  5. Sanskrit
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Sanskrit
  8. Sanskrit
  9. Meghaduta
  10. True
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. 5
  13. False
  14. False
  15. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. English
  18. the Ramayana
  19. Premchand
  20. The Jungle Book
  21. False
  22. Bengali
  23. Premchand
  24. True
  25. True
  26. 18
  27. animal stories
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Mowgli
  30. Rudyard Kipling
  31. Rama
  32. False
  33. Kalidasa
  34. False
  35. Tirukkural
  36. Thiruvalluvar
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Vishnu Sharma
  40. False

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