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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 607 · 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: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  15. 15.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  16. 16.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  21. 21.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  34. 34.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Tirukkural
  3. Krishna
  4. Premchand
  5. True
  6. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 18
  8. True
  9. 5
  10. Tulsidas
  11. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. Awadhi
  13. Rudyard Kipling
  14. the Panchatantra
  15. The Jungle Book
  16. True
  17. 18
  18. the Ramayana
  19. Tamil
  20. Mowgli
  21. False
  22. False
  23. animal stories
  24. False
  25. Bengali
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Meghaduta
  29. False
  30. Gitanjali
  31. False
  32. Lewis Carroll
  33. Sanskrit
  34. Godan
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. Ved Vyasa
  37. Thiruvalluvar
  38. Sanskrit
  39. English
  40. Rama

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