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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 510 · 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 Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  19. 19.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali

Answer key

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

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