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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 534 · 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.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  2. 2.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  10. 10.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  21. 21.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Wings of Fire
  2. Idgah
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. Krishna
  6. Godan
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. English
  9. Tirukkural
  10. True
  11. 5
  12. Tulsidas
  13. 18
  14. Sanskrit
  15. Sanskrit
  16. False
  17. True
  18. True
  19. Kalidasa
  20. the Panchatantra
  21. False
  22. English
  23. Tamil
  24. False
  25. Gitanjali
  26. Premchand
  27. Kalidasa
  28. False
  29. The Jungle Book
  30. Hindi
  31. False
  32. the Ramayana
  33. False
  34. animal stories
  35. English
  36. True
  37. False
  38. False
  39. Meghaduta
  40. False

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