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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 603 · 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: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  21. 21.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Gitanjali
  3. Wings of Fire
  4. Ramcharitmanas
  5. True
  6. Ved Vyasa
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. Premchand
  9. Tamil
  10. True
  11. Rama
  12. True
  13. Valmiki
  14. False
  15. True
  16. False
  17. The Jungle Book
  18. English
  19. True
  20. Krishna
  21. False
  22. True
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. the Ramayana
  25. True
  26. False
  27. False
  28. False
  29. animal stories
  30. Bengali
  31. 5
  32. Kalidasa
  33. 18
  34. Tulsidas
  35. False
  36. 18
  37. False
  38. False
  39. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. True

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