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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 864 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  10. 10.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  25. 25.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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