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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 341 · 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 the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  10. 10.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna

Answer key

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

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