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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 876 · 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 Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  18. 18.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  31. 31.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  36. 36.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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