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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 149 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Rama
  2. False
  3. 18
  4. False
  5. Valmiki
  6. Vishnu Sharma
  7. True
  8. False
  9. True
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Rudyard Kipling
  12. 18
  13. Bengali
  14. Krishna
  15. Lewis Carroll
  16. The Jungle Book
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Thiruvalluvar
  19. True
  20. Premchand
  21. 5
  22. Kalidasa
  23. Sanskrit
  24. the Ramayana
  25. True
  26. Tirukkural
  27. Sanskrit
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Premchand
  31. True
  32. Wings of Fire
  33. English
  34. False
  35. False
  36. False
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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