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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 270 · 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: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  8. 8.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Valmiki
  3. True
  4. Godan
  5. Bengali
  6. 18
  7. Alice in Wonderland
  8. The Jungle Book
  9. the Ramayana
  10. 5
  11. Tamil
  12. Rama
  13. Ramcharitmanas
  14. Tulsidas
  15. Lewis Carroll
  16. Awadhi
  17. False
  18. 18
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. False
  21. Premchand
  22. Kalidasa
  23. Tirukkural
  24. Vishnu Sharma
  25. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. Mowgli
  27. Premchand
  28. True
  29. True
  30. Rabindranath Tagore
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Gitanjali
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. Thiruvalluvar

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