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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 672 · 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 Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  7. 7.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  37. 37.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil

Answer key

  1. Tulsidas
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Premchand
  4. Rudyard Kipling
  5. Ved Vyasa
  6. Ramcharitmanas
  7. False
  8. Gitanjali
  9. False
  10. True
  11. Rama
  12. 5
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. Premchand
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Mowgli
  17. False
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. animal stories
  20. Vishnu Sharma
  21. English
  22. Thiruvalluvar
  23. Kalidasa
  24. the Mahabharata
  25. the Ramayana
  26. True
  27. 18
  28. True
  29. False
  30. True
  31. False
  32. False
  33. True
  34. True
  35. English
  36. Sanskrit
  37. 18
  38. False
  39. Lewis Carroll
  40. Tamil

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