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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 492 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  18. 18.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  39. 39.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna

Answer key

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 18
  3. Rama
  4. Mowgli
  5. the Panchatantra
  6. Premchand
  7. True
  8. 18
  9. Ved Vyasa
  10. True
  11. Gitanjali
  12. animal stories
  13. Tamil
  14. True
  15. Bengali
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. False
  19. False
  20. True
  21. True
  22. Thiruvalluvar
  23. Ramcharitmanas
  24. English
  25. True
  26. False
  27. The Jungle Book
  28. Lewis Carroll
  29. Tulsidas
  30. Hindi
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Sanskrit
  34. True
  35. False
  36. Premchand
  37. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  38. Wings of Fire
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. Krishna

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