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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 942 · 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 Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  39. 39.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Tulsidas
  3. 5
  4. 18
  5. True
  6. False
  7. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. Sanskrit
  10. Bengali
  11. English
  12. False
  13. True
  14. the Panchatantra
  15. Rama
  16. 18
  17. Ramcharitmanas
  18. False
  19. Premchand
  20. Gitanjali
  21. Kalidasa
  22. Godan
  23. Krishna
  24. Sanskrit
  25. True
  26. False
  27. the Mahabharata
  28. the Mahabharata
  29. True
  30. Rudyard Kipling
  31. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. Mowgli
  33. Idgah
  34. Hindi
  35. Rabindranath Tagore
  36. Lewis Carroll
  37. True
  38. animal stories
  39. Wings of Fire
  40. Valmiki

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