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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 159 · 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) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  4. 4.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  9. 9.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book

Answer key

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

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