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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 62 · 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 Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  2. 2.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  16. 16.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  17. 17.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  35. 35.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  36. 36.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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