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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 965 · 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.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  13. 13.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  14. 14.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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