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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 526 · 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.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  12. 12.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. True
  3. True
  4. Rabindranath Tagore
  5. Wings of Fire
  6. Rama
  7. Tulsidas
  8. 5
  9. Thiruvalluvar
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. animal stories
  12. Gitanjali
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. Sanskrit
  15. 18
  16. False
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Kalidasa
  19. True
  20. Valmiki
  21. Mowgli
  22. Awadhi
  23. Rudyard Kipling
  24. True
  25. False
  26. True
  27. True
  28. False
  29. The Jungle Book
  30. Tamil
  31. True
  32. False
  33. False
  34. the Ramayana
  35. Tirukkural
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Ramcharitmanas
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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