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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 462 · 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: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  5. 5.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps

Answer key

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

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