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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 193 · 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 Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  19. 19.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  29. 29.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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