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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 977 · 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 The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  2. 2.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  36. 36.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

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

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