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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 782 · 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: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  3. 3.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

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

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