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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 909 · 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: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  22. 22.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  36. 36.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

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

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