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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 911 · 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: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  21. 21.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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