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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 550 · 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 Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. Rudyard Kipling
  2. the Panchatantra
  3. True
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. Tirukkural
  6. Tamil
  7. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. False
  9. Lewis Carroll
  10. Krishna
  11. 5
  12. True
  13. True
  14. Thiruvalluvar
  15. English
  16. True
  17. Rama
  18. Valmiki
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. False
  22. False
  23. False
  24. Alice in Wonderland
  25. 18
  26. Godan
  27. Ramcharitmanas
  28. True
  29. False
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Sanskrit
  33. False
  34. Ved Vyasa
  35. Hindi
  36. False
  37. English
  38. True
  39. Rabindranath Tagore
  40. Sanskrit

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