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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 994 · 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 Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil

Answer key

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

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