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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 354 · 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) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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