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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 65 · 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 Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  16. 16.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  19. 19.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  40. 40.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?

Answer key

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

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