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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 966 · 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 Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  30. 30.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Premchand
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. False
  6. Valmiki
  7. 18
  8. Tulsidas
  9. False
  10. Tirukkural
  11. Sanskrit
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. animal stories
  14. Vishnu Sharma
  15. Awadhi
  16. Bengali
  17. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. Krishna
  19. Lewis Carroll
  20. False
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Thiruvalluvar
  25. Rama
  26. English
  27. False
  28. Ramcharitmanas
  29. Sanskrit
  30. 5
  31. False
  32. Idgah
  33. Premchand
  34. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. Rabindranath Tagore
  36. Godan
  37. True
  38. True
  39. True
  40. True

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