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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 332 · 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 was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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