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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 350 · 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 Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  3. 3.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

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

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