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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 863 · 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: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English

Answer key

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

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