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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 610 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  4. 4.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  22. 22.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Mowgli
  4. True
  5. 18
  6. 18
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. True
  9. Krishna
  10. animal stories
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Ved Vyasa
  13. Rama
  14. the Panchatantra
  15. True
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. Tulsidas
  18. Bengali
  19. 5
  20. Premchand
  21. Thiruvalluvar
  22. False
  23. True
  24. False
  25. False
  26. Sanskrit
  27. True
  28. Valmiki
  29. the Ramayana
  30. True
  31. Tamil
  32. False
  33. Premchand
  34. Tirukkural
  35. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. Kalidasa
  38. False
  39. Hindi
  40. False

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