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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 905 · 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 was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  10. 10.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  12. 12.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  16. 16.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  19. 19.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

  1. Krishna
  2. True
  3. Premchand
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. True
  6. English
  7. Tulsidas
  8. False
  9. Rama
  10. True
  11. Tirukkural
  12. False
  13. True
  14. Rudyard Kipling
  15. Gitanjali
  16. False
  17. The Jungle Book
  18. Mowgli
  19. False
  20. True
  21. Godan
  22. 18
  23. Bengali
  24. True
  25. 5
  26. True
  27. False
  28. False
  29. Vishnu Sharma
  30. 18
  31. False
  32. animal stories
  33. False
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. the Panchatantra
  36. True
  37. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. False
  39. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  40. Kalidasa

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