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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 682 · 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 the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. False
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. Vishnu Sharma
  5. False
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Tulsidas
  8. 5
  9. False
  10. Rama
  11. True
  12. Kalidasa
  13. Krishna
  14. Premchand
  15. True
  16. animal stories
  17. the Panchatantra
  18. 18
  19. False
  20. 18
  21. True
  22. the Ramayana
  23. Wings of Fire
  24. False
  25. The Jungle Book
  26. English
  27. False
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Tirukkural
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. True
  33. Alice in Wonderland
  34. Valmiki
  35. False
  36. English
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Lewis Carroll
  40. False

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