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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 201 · 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 Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  2. 2.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  7. 7.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book

Answer key

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

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