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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 806 · 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.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  8. 8.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. True
  3. False
  4. Krishna
  5. animal stories
  6. Ramcharitmanas
  7. Hindi
  8. False
  9. 18
  10. True
  11. Alice in Wonderland
  12. the Ramayana
  13. Mowgli
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. Lewis Carroll
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. English
  20. True
  21. True
  22. 5
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. False
  25. Sanskrit
  26. False
  27. Sanskrit
  28. Gitanjali
  29. True
  30. True
  31. Sanskrit
  32. Rama
  33. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. Bengali
  35. Wings of Fire
  36. Rudyard Kipling
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Vishnu Sharma
  39. False
  40. True

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