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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 160 · 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: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  12. 12.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  14. 14.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Hindi
  3. Krishna
  4. Rama
  5. the Ramayana
  6. Mowgli
  7. 18
  8. False
  9. Tamil
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. The Jungle Book
  12. True
  13. animal stories
  14. False
  15. True
  16. False
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Rabindranath Tagore
  19. False
  20. False
  21. True
  22. Sanskrit
  23. True
  24. Gitanjali
  25. True
  26. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. True
  28. Valmiki
  29. Wings of Fire
  30. 18
  31. Vishnu Sharma
  32. True
  33. Tirukkural
  34. False
  35. 5
  36. Sanskrit
  37. False
  38. Tulsidas
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Thiruvalluvar

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