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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 241 · 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.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  9. 9.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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