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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 368 · 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 Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. False
  3. Mowgli
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. Wings of Fire
  6. 18
  7. Tulsidas
  8. Gitanjali
  9. Vishnu Sharma
  10. False
  11. Krishna
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Sanskrit
  14. 5
  15. Ved Vyasa
  16. True
  17. Alice in Wonderland
  18. Tirukkural
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. Rama
  22. True
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Awadhi
  26. Premchand
  27. the Mahabharata
  28. Kalidasa
  29. False
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Idgah
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Valmiki
  36. Lewis Carroll
  37. True
  38. True
  39. English
  40. Meghaduta

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