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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 538 · 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) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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