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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 183 · 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 Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. animal stories
  3. Hindi
  4. True
  5. Valmiki
  6. Rudyard Kipling
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. English
  9. 18
  10. False
  11. 18
  12. Sanskrit
  13. True
  14. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  15. Tirukkural
  16. Sanskrit
  17. Sanskrit
  18. False
  19. False
  20. False
  21. Bengali
  22. Awadhi
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Alice in Wonderland
  26. False
  27. Ramcharitmanas
  28. False
  29. Mowgli
  30. Tamil
  31. Lewis Carroll
  32. True
  33. False
  34. Kalidasa
  35. 5
  36. False
  37. Meghaduta
  38. Premchand
  39. Krishna
  40. the Panchatantra

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