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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 737 · 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 Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  7. 7.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  21. 21.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?

Answer key

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

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