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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 240 · 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 Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  14. 14.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali

Answer key

  1. Tirukkural
  2. Premchand
  3. Idgah
  4. Mowgli
  5. 18
  6. Krishna
  7. 5
  8. False
  9. True
  10. True
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. False
  13. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  14. Godan
  15. Rama
  16. True
  17. animal stories
  18. False
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. Bengali
  22. True
  23. Kalidasa
  24. Sanskrit
  25. Tulsidas
  26. Rabindranath Tagore
  27. Tamil
  28. True
  29. False
  30. True
  31. False
  32. English
  33. False
  34. Thiruvalluvar
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. Gitanjali
  37. Ramcharitmanas
  38. False
  39. False
  40. The Jungle Book

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