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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 592 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  16. 16.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  19. 19.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

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

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