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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 360 · 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 Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  4. 4.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  19. 19.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  24. 24.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  37. 37.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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