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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

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

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