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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 132 · 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.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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