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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 810 · 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: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  30. 30.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  31. 31.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Krishna
  4. animal stories
  5. True
  6. Mowgli
  7. Sanskrit
  8. 18
  9. 5
  10. Ved Vyasa
  11. Rama
  12. the Ramayana
  13. False
  14. False
  15. False
  16. Bengali
  17. False
  18. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. Godan
  20. Tulsidas
  21. Sanskrit
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Premchand
  24. Sanskrit
  25. Tirukkural
  26. 18
  27. False
  28. Premchand
  29. Ramcharitmanas
  30. The Jungle Book
  31. True
  32. Kalidasa
  33. False
  34. English
  35. True
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. Rabindranath Tagore
  38. the Mahabharata
  39. Awadhi
  40. False

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