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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 916 · 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) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire

Answer key

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

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