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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 995 · 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 Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  5. 5.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  13. 13.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  17. 17.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  19. 19.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. Rudyard Kipling
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. Rama
  5. False
  6. True
  7. Valmiki
  8. Gitanjali
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. 18
  11. Premchand
  12. Vishnu Sharma
  13. True
  14. True
  15. 18
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. True
  18. Meghaduta
  19. True
  20. Mowgli
  21. Ramcharitmanas
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Kalidasa
  25. Thiruvalluvar
  26. Krishna
  27. False
  28. True
  29. the Ramayana
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Hindi
  33. False
  34. Sanskrit
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 5
  40. English

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