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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 767 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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