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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 791 · 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) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  34. 34.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. Ramcharitmanas
  2. Krishna
  3. Sanskrit
  4. 5
  5. Ved Vyasa
  6. False
  7. Rama
  8. True
  9. True
  10. False
  11. False
  12. 18
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Tamil
  16. The Jungle Book
  17. the Ramayana
  18. 18
  19. Meghaduta
  20. the Panchatantra
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Hindi
  24. False
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. Premchand
  27. English
  28. animal stories
  29. True
  30. Sanskrit
  31. Sanskrit
  32. False
  33. Alice in Wonderland
  34. Wings of Fire
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Valmiki
  39. Rudyard Kipling
  40. Kalidasa

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