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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 979 · 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 Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Vishnu Sharma
  2. False
  3. the Ramayana
  4. Bengali
  5. 18
  6. Rudyard Kipling
  7. True
  8. False
  9. True
  10. Rabindranath Tagore
  11. Krishna
  12. Sanskrit
  13. False
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. Hindi
  16. True
  17. False
  18. 5
  19. True
  20. Wings of Fire
  21. Awadhi
  22. Rama
  23. 18
  24. the Mahabharata
  25. the Panchatantra
  26. Tulsidas
  27. True
  28. True
  29. Idgah
  30. Lewis Carroll
  31. False
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Kalidasa
  35. animal stories
  36. English
  37. Premchand
  38. Godan
  39. Thiruvalluvar
  40. False

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