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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 590 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

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

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