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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 513 · 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 the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  5. 5.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  7. 7.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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