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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 914 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  8. 8.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. 5
  3. the Ramayana
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. Krishna
  7. Kalidasa
  8. The Jungle Book
  9. Sanskrit
  10. 18
  11. False
  12. Sanskrit
  13. False
  14. English
  15. Ved Vyasa
  16. False
  17. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. Valmiki
  20. False
  21. Mowgli
  22. Rabindranath Tagore
  23. Thiruvalluvar
  24. Sanskrit
  25. False
  26. the Panchatantra
  27. True
  28. Hindi
  29. True
  30. Vishnu Sharma
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. Rama
  33. True
  34. Wings of Fire
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Awadhi
  38. False
  39. Premchand
  40. Meghaduta

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