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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 788 · 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 was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  25. 25.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll

Answer key

  1. Krishna
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Rama
  4. Premchand
  5. Kalidasa
  6. Sanskrit
  7. False
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. 18
  10. 18
  11. Sanskrit
  12. True
  13. Mowgli
  14. 5
  15. True
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. animal stories
  18. Tamil
  19. Valmiki
  20. Ramcharitmanas
  21. False
  22. Alice in Wonderland
  23. Kalidasa
  24. Godan
  25. True
  26. the Ramayana
  27. False
  28. Hindi
  29. Bengali
  30. True
  31. Sanskrit
  32. English
  33. Lewis Carroll
  34. False
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. True
  37. Premchand
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Vishnu Sharma

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