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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 327 · 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: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 18
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Tulsidas
  5. Rama
  6. True
  7. Meghaduta
  8. 5
  9. Premchand
  10. animal stories
  11. Valmiki
  12. 18
  13. Sanskrit
  14. Hindi
  15. the Panchatantra
  16. True
  17. Sanskrit
  18. True
  19. True
  20. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. True
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Ramcharitmanas
  24. True
  25. Sanskrit
  26. Wings of Fire
  27. False
  28. Krishna
  29. True
  30. Tirukkural
  31. False
  32. False
  33. English
  34. True
  35. Tamil
  36. False
  37. Ved Vyasa
  38. Kalidasa
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. Kalidasa

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