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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 862 · 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 Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  18. 18.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  20. 20.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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