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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 792 · 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.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  5. 5.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman

Answer key

  1. The Jungle Book
  2. False
  3. Sanskrit
  4. Lewis Carroll
  5. True
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Rudyard Kipling
  8. Awadhi
  9. True
  10. Premchand
  11. Alice in Wonderland
  12. 5
  13. True
  14. Ramcharitmanas
  15. Valmiki
  16. Hindi
  17. True
  18. Sanskrit
  19. Meghaduta
  20. False
  21. Tamil
  22. Godan
  23. the Ramayana
  24. 18
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Gitanjali
  28. False
  29. Vishnu Sharma
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Wings of Fire
  33. False
  34. Sanskrit
  35. True
  36. Rama
  37. True
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Krishna

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