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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 648 · 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 Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  26. 26.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. Valmiki
  2. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 5
  4. False
  5. Kalidasa
  6. Vishnu Sharma
  7. False
  8. animal stories
  9. Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 18
  11. False
  12. Thiruvalluvar
  13. The Jungle Book
  14. False
  15. True
  16. True
  17. False
  18. False
  19. the Panchatantra
  20. Krishna
  21. the Ramayana
  22. Kalidasa
  23. Premchand
  24. True
  25. Mowgli
  26. False
  27. English
  28. Ved Vyasa
  29. True
  30. Lewis Carroll
  31. Sanskrit
  32. True
  33. True
  34. 18
  35. True
  36. Meghaduta
  37. Hindi
  38. Idgah
  39. True
  40. Sanskrit

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