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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 765 · 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) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  11. 11.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  21. 21.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  27. 27.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. English
  3. Gitanjali
  4. Vishnu Sharma
  5. Ramcharitmanas
  6. Premchand
  7. Krishna
  8. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. Rama
  10. Mowgli
  11. False
  12. Sanskrit
  13. 18
  14. Thiruvalluvar
  15. Rudyard Kipling
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Kalidasa
  19. Awadhi
  20. Premchand
  21. False
  22. False
  23. 5
  24. False
  25. True
  26. animal stories
  27. False
  28. False
  29. True
  30. Hindi
  31. Kalidasa
  32. Idgah
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Tulsidas
  38. True
  39. False
  40. Tirukkural

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