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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 233 · 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.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  3. 3.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. Wings of Fire
  2. Tirukkural
  3. the Ramayana
  4. Rabindranath Tagore
  5. False
  6. 5
  7. Kalidasa
  8. True
  9. Alice in Wonderland
  10. True
  11. True
  12. True
  13. 18
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. True
  16. Kalidasa
  17. False
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. False
  20. Awadhi
  21. Ved Vyasa
  22. the Panchatantra
  23. English
  24. animal stories
  25. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. Ramcharitmanas
  27. Rama
  28. False
  29. True
  30. False
  31. Godan
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Bengali
  35. Krishna
  36. Sanskrit
  37. False
  38. Rudyard Kipling
  39. Valmiki
  40. Sanskrit

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