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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 443 · 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.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  15. 15.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  17. 17.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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