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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 531 · 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 the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  40. 40.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. 18
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. False
  5. Hindi
  6. False
  7. English
  8. Vishnu Sharma
  9. True
  10. 5
  11. Tirukkural
  12. True
  13. Premchand
  14. Sanskrit
  15. the Panchatantra
  16. 18
  17. False
  18. Rudyard Kipling
  19. True
  20. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. Idgah
  22. Tulsidas
  23. Mowgli
  24. Rama
  25. Kalidasa
  26. Ramcharitmanas
  27. False
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Sanskrit
  30. Krishna
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. the Ramayana
  33. False
  34. Rabindranath Tagore
  35. False
  36. Premchand
  37. Wings of Fire
  38. True
  39. Awadhi
  40. the Mahabharata

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