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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 539 · 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 Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Meghaduta
  2. 5
  3. False
  4. Mowgli
  5. animal stories
  6. Bengali
  7. 18
  8. Rama
  9. Gitanjali
  10. Idgah
  11. False
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. True
  16. Tirukkural
  17. Rudyard Kipling
  18. Ved Vyasa
  19. the Ramayana
  20. Wings of Fire
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Thiruvalluvar
  24. Kalidasa
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Kalidasa
  29. Lewis Carroll
  30. True
  31. Sanskrit
  32. True
  33. Ramcharitmanas
  34. False
  35. 18
  36. True
  37. False
  38. the Panchatantra
  39. True
  40. False

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