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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 663 · 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 Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  20. 20.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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