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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 632 · 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 the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  3. 3.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

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

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