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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 256 · 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 Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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