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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 371 · 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 Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  15. 15.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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