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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 120 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  36. 36.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. Krishna
  3. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. False
  5. 5
  6. Sanskrit
  7. 18
  8. True
  9. False
  10. Rudyard Kipling
  11. Idgah
  12. English
  13. Mowgli
  14. True
  15. Rabindranath Tagore
  16. Wings of Fire
  17. Premchand
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. True
  20. False
  21. the Ramayana
  22. False
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Awadhi
  26. Sanskrit
  27. Rama
  28. Gitanjali
  29. False
  30. Premchand
  31. Tulsidas
  32. English
  33. False
  34. Ramcharitmanas
  35. Tamil
  36. False
  37. False
  38. The Jungle Book
  39. Sanskrit
  40. the Mahabharata

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