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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 328 · 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.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  18. 18.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  21. 21.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  32. 32.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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