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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 514 · 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) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  28. 28.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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