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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 922 · 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: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  3. 3.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  19. 19.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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