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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 594 · 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) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  35. 35.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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