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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 884 · 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 Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  8. 8.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  37. 37.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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