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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 460 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  3. 3.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  20. 20.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  26. 26.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Sanskrit
  3. False
  4. Ved Vyasa
  5. Rama
  6. Thiruvalluvar
  7. True
  8. English
  9. Idgah
  10. Hindi
  11. False
  12. the Ramayana
  13. True
  14. Lewis Carroll
  15. False
  16. Valmiki
  17. 18
  18. True
  19. Gitanjali
  20. False
  21. Kalidasa
  22. False
  23. True
  24. the Panchatantra
  25. animal stories
  26. 5
  27. English
  28. True
  29. False
  30. True
  31. 18
  32. Ramcharitmanas
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Bengali
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. Godan
  38. False
  39. Tirukkural
  40. True

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