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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 993 · 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 Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  16. 16.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  35. 35.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. the Ramayana
  2. Ved Vyasa
  3. 5
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. 18
  6. animal stories
  7. Premchand
  8. False
  9. False
  10. Wings of Fire
  11. False
  12. Ramcharitmanas
  13. Alice in Wonderland
  14. English
  15. Idgah
  16. False
  17. Rama
  18. Lewis Carroll
  19. Rabindranath Tagore
  20. Krishna
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. The Jungle Book
  24. Hindi
  25. Awadhi
  26. English
  27. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. Tirukkural
  29. False
  30. True
  31. Kalidasa
  32. Meghaduta
  33. True
  34. Sanskrit
  35. 18
  36. True
  37. Thiruvalluvar
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Valmiki

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