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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 595 · 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.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  5. 5.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  18. 18.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  35. 35.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  40. 40.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

  1. Ramcharitmanas
  2. False
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. Sanskrit
  5. True
  6. Mowgli
  7. 18
  8. 5
  9. Sanskrit
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Tulsidas
  12. Wings of Fire
  13. Kalidasa
  14. True
  15. Vishnu Sharma
  16. Sanskrit
  17. Ved Vyasa
  18. False
  19. Bengali
  20. English
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Kalidasa
  24. False
  25. False
  26. Hindi
  27. The Jungle Book
  28. Tirukkural
  29. animal stories
  30. Krishna
  31. False
  32. True
  33. the Ramayana
  34. Premchand
  35. 18
  36. Premchand
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Sanskrit
  40. the Mahabharata

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