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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 68 · 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.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  19. 19.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  20. 20.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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