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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 944 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Rama
  2. Tamil
  3. Sanskrit
  4. animal stories
  5. Tulsidas
  6. False
  7. 18
  8. Mowgli
  9. Wings of Fire
  10. Sanskrit
  11. The Jungle Book
  12. True
  13. True
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. False
  17. False
  18. False
  19. Rudyard Kipling
  20. Krishna
  21. Vishnu Sharma
  22. 5
  23. English
  24. False
  25. 18
  26. False
  27. Valmiki
  28. False
  29. Bengali
  30. Thiruvalluvar
  31. False
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. False
  34. False
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. English
  37. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  38. True
  39. True
  40. False

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