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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 74 · 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.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

  1. False
  2. True
  3. Rama
  4. True
  5. True
  6. 18
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 18
  9. 5
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. True
  12. True
  13. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. False
  15. False
  16. Mowgli
  17. False
  18. Awadhi
  19. Sanskrit
  20. False
  21. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. English
  23. True
  24. Premchand
  25. Gitanjali
  26. English
  27. Bengali
  28. False
  29. False
  30. True
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. Krishna
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. Tamil
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Tirukkural
  37. Kalidasa
  38. Idgah
  39. The Jungle Book
  40. Ved Vyasa

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