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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 181 · 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) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  4. 4.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  8. 8.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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