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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 643 · 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 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  30. 30.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  36. 36.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan

Answer key

  1. Wings of Fire
  2. 18
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Tamil
  5. Rama
  6. 5
  7. Mowgli
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Godan
  10. Bengali
  11. Sanskrit
  12. Premchand
  13. False
  14. True
  15. Kalidasa
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. 18
  18. False
  19. Gitanjali
  20. Idgah
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Meghaduta
  23. False
  24. the Ramayana
  25. True
  26. False
  27. False
  28. True
  29. Lewis Carroll
  30. The Jungle Book
  31. Tirukkural
  32. True
  33. Krishna
  34. Hindi
  35. Valmiki
  36. animal stories
  37. Sanskrit
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Abhijnanashakuntalam

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