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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 961 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  2. 2.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  25. 25.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

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

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