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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 878 · 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 Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil

Answer key

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

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