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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 185 · 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 Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  7. 7.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Meghaduta
  2. 18
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. the Ramayana
  5. Rama
  6. Premchand
  7. True
  8. English
  9. 18
  10. Kalidasa
  11. False
  12. True
  13. True
  14. True
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. True
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Mowgli
  19. False
  20. Valmiki
  21. Sanskrit
  22. Tulsidas
  23. Sanskrit
  24. True
  25. 5
  26. Alice in Wonderland
  27. True
  28. Rabindranath Tagore
  29. True
  30. the Panchatantra
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. True
  33. False
  34. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. False
  36. the Mahabharata
  37. Ved Vyasa
  38. The Jungle Book
  39. False
  40. False

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