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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 533 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  3. 3.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  31. 31.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

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

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