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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 762 · 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 Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  21. 21.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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