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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 110 · 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 was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  26. 26.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire

Answer key

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

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