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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 670 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  18. 18.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  24. 24.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan

Answer key

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 5
  3. Tamil
  4. Tirukkural
  5. False
  6. True
  7. Sanskrit
  8. True
  9. Rama
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. 18
  12. False
  13. Valmiki
  14. False
  15. False
  16. False
  17. Godan
  18. True
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Krishna
  23. Sanskrit
  24. True
  25. False
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. Meghaduta
  28. animal stories
  29. Tulsidas
  30. False
  31. False
  32. English
  33. Bengali
  34. Premchand
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Premchand
  38. Rudyard Kipling
  39. False
  40. Gitanjali

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