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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 525 · 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) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  40. 40.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima

Answer key

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

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