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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 828 · 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 wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  5. 5.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  15. 15.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  17. 17.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Valmiki
  2. 5
  3. False
  4. animal stories
  5. False
  6. Lewis Carroll
  7. False
  8. False
  9. True
  10. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. Sanskrit
  12. Tulsidas
  13. 18
  14. the Panchatantra
  15. False
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. True
  18. Rama
  19. Krishna
  20. 18
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. Thiruvalluvar
  23. Kalidasa
  24. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  25. Sanskrit
  26. True
  27. True
  28. True
  29. English
  30. Gitanjali
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. the Ramayana
  33. True
  34. English
  35. Tirukkural
  36. Bengali
  37. Rudyard Kipling
  38. True
  39. False
  40. False

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