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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 304 · 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.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  15. 15.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  30. 30.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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