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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 178 · 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 wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  38. 38.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki

Answer key

  1. Vishnu Sharma
  2. Tulsidas
  3. Hindi
  4. Mowgli
  5. Kalidasa
  6. True
  7. Valmiki
  8. Thiruvalluvar
  9. 18
  10. 18
  11. False
  12. False
  13. False
  14. 5
  15. the Ramayana
  16. Lewis Carroll
  17. Rabindranath Tagore
  18. Godan
  19. False
  20. True
  21. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. True
  23. True
  24. False
  25. True
  26. the Panchatantra
  27. True
  28. Tirukkural
  29. True
  30. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. True
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. False
  34. The Jungle Book
  35. False
  36. Ved Vyasa
  37. English
  38. Rama
  39. True
  40. Premchand

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