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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 761 · 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.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  7. 7.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  14. 14.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  31. 31.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  35. 35.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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