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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 870 · 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 Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. True
  3. Gitanjali
  4. True
  5. 5
  6. Rama
  7. English
  8. Krishna
  9. Rabindranath Tagore
  10. Vishnu Sharma
  11. Tamil
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. False
  15. Bengali
  16. the Ramayana
  17. 18
  18. Idgah
  19. English
  20. Valmiki
  21. 18
  22. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. False
  24. Ramcharitmanas
  25. Premchand
  26. True
  27. False
  28. Hindi
  29. True
  30. Kalidasa
  31. Kalidasa
  32. True
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Ved Vyasa
  36. False
  37. Meghaduta
  38. the Panchatantra
  39. True
  40. Tulsidas

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