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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 555 · 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: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  12. 12.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  38. 38.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Premchand
  3. Tulsidas
  4. Tamil
  5. False
  6. Bengali
  7. English
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Rama
  10. Ved Vyasa
  11. English
  12. False
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. Sanskrit
  17. Kalidasa
  18. 5
  19. False
  20. True
  21. Tirukkural
  22. False
  23. Hindi
  24. the Panchatantra
  25. 18
  26. Kalidasa
  27. False
  28. False
  29. Gitanjali
  30. the Ramayana
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Valmiki
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. Mowgli
  38. Alice in Wonderland
  39. True
  40. Vishnu Sharma

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