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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 118 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  4. 4.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  21. 21.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  39. 39.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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