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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 58 · 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.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  16. 16.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. animal stories
  3. 18
  4. Sanskrit
  5. Sanskrit
  6. Meghaduta
  7. Rudyard Kipling
  8. Godan
  9. Valmiki
  10. Gitanjali
  11. Ved Vyasa
  12. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Sanskrit
  16. True
  17. Alice in Wonderland
  18. Mowgli
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. Kalidasa
  21. 18
  22. English
  23. True
  24. Rama
  25. Tirukkural
  26. False
  27. False
  28. True
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. Sanskrit
  34. True
  35. Tulsidas
  36. Krishna
  37. 5
  38. the Ramayana
  39. False
  40. False

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