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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 544 · 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.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  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: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  16. 16.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  21. 21.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Thiruvalluvar
  3. 5
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. Lewis Carroll
  6. Tulsidas
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. Meghaduta
  9. Rama
  10. Hindi
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. False
  13. Awadhi
  14. Wings of Fire
  15. English
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Tirukkural
  19. False
  20. animal stories
  21. False
  22. The Jungle Book
  23. True
  24. False
  25. True
  26. False
  27. Valmiki
  28. Sanskrit
  29. False
  30. Krishna
  31. Rabindranath Tagore
  32. Alice in Wonderland
  33. True
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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