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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 366 · 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 Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  10. 10.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  12. 12.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  25. 25.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  37. 37.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

  1. Thiruvalluvar
  2. Vishnu Sharma
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. Tirukkural
  5. Wings of Fire
  6. False
  7. False
  8. False
  9. English
  10. True
  11. Rama
  12. True
  13. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. Sanskrit
  15. the Ramayana
  16. False
  17. Hindi
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. True
  20. True
  21. 18
  22. False
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. animal stories
  25. True
  26. Valmiki
  27. Gitanjali
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Premchand
  30. False
  31. 5
  32. True
  33. Meghaduta
  34. True
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Krishna
  37. Alice in Wonderland
  38. Kalidasa
  39. True
  40. English

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