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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 865 · 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 Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. Tulsidas
  2. Premchand
  3. True
  4. True
  5. True
  6. Rama
  7. Hindi
  8. Alice in Wonderland
  9. Tirukkural
  10. 18
  11. False
  12. Valmiki
  13. 18
  14. Kalidasa
  15. Awadhi
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. False
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Mowgli
  21. Sanskrit
  22. Rabindranath Tagore
  23. False
  24. Thiruvalluvar
  25. Lewis Carroll
  26. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. the Ramayana
  28. False
  29. The Jungle Book
  30. False
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Wings of Fire
  34. True
  35. True
  36. Krishna
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Sanskrit

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