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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 874 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. True
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. False
  5. Rudyard Kipling
  6. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. Tulsidas
  8. True
  9. Premchand
  10. 18
  11. 5
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Krishna
  14. 18
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. True
  17. Hindi
  18. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. True
  20. True
  21. True
  22. Kalidasa
  23. False
  24. Rama
  25. the Panchatantra
  26. Mowgli
  27. Lewis Carroll
  28. Wings of Fire
  29. Tirukkural
  30. Sanskrit
  31. False
  32. Valmiki
  33. Premchand
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Awadhi
  38. Meghaduta
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Alice in Wonderland

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