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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 155 · 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.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  40. 40.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah

Answer key

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

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