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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 881 · 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: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  20. 20.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English

Answer key

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

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