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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 689 · 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 Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  6. 6.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  10. 10.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 13.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  33. 33.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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