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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 90 · 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: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  9. 9.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  20. 20.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  35. 35.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  37. 37.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Valmiki
  3. 5
  4. Vishnu Sharma
  5. animal stories
  6. 18
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. Lewis Carroll
  9. False
  10. False
  11. True
  12. 18
  13. Wings of Fire
  14. False
  15. English
  16. Hindi
  17. True
  18. False
  19. Sanskrit
  20. True
  21. Tirukkural
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. True
  24. Mowgli
  25. Alice in Wonderland
  26. the Panchatantra
  27. True
  28. Sanskrit
  29. False
  30. Godan
  31. Tulsidas
  32. Ved Vyasa
  33. False
  34. Gitanjali
  35. False
  36. Ramcharitmanas
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Krishna
  40. Idgah

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