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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 362 · 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 Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  35. 35.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Rudyard Kipling
  2. True
  3. Wings of Fire
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. 5
  6. Thiruvalluvar
  7. 18
  8. Rama
  9. the Ramayana
  10. Gitanjali
  11. False
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. Tamil
  14. True
  15. True
  16. True
  17. 18
  18. Sanskrit
  19. False
  20. Tulsidas
  21. False
  22. Hindi
  23. Ramcharitmanas
  24. Krishna
  25. Premchand
  26. Lewis Carroll
  27. False
  28. False
  29. True
  30. Ved Vyasa
  31. True
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Kalidasa
  35. False
  36. False
  37. The Jungle Book
  38. True
  39. Vishnu Sharma
  40. True

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