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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 984 · 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) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

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

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