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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 624 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  2. 2.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (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 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  13. 13.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  20. 20.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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