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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 975 · 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) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  2. 2.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  13. 13.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  17. 17.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Krishna
  2. Idgah
  3. True
  4. 18
  5. Premchand
  6. Thiruvalluvar
  7. animal stories
  8. Rabindranath Tagore
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. False
  11. Tulsidas
  12. Mowgli
  13. False
  14. 18
  15. True
  16. Tamil
  17. False
  18. Wings of Fire
  19. 5
  20. True
  21. False
  22. True
  23. False
  24. True
  25. Ramcharitmanas
  26. Rama
  27. Kalidasa
  28. the Ramayana
  29. Vishnu Sharma
  30. the Mahabharata
  31. False
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. True
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. True
  38. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. Kalidasa
  40. True

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