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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 929 · 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 the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  4. 4.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  24. 24.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas

Answer key

  1. Valmiki
  2. Rama
  3. animal stories
  4. The Jungle Book
  5. 5
  6. 18
  7. Godan
  8. Mowgli
  9. Meghaduta
  10. 18
  11. the Ramayana
  12. Tamil
  13. Hindi
  14. Premchand
  15. True
  16. Premchand
  17. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  18. Lewis Carroll
  19. True
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. True
  22. True
  23. Rudyard Kipling
  24. Gitanjali
  25. English
  26. Vishnu Sharma
  27. False
  28. Alice in Wonderland
  29. Sanskrit
  30. False
  31. True
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. Rabindranath Tagore
  34. False
  35. Krishna
  36. Sanskrit
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Tulsidas

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