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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 667 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Godan
  4. 18
  5. Mowgli
  6. Thiruvalluvar
  7. Krishna
  8. animal stories
  9. 18
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Wings of Fire
  12. False
  13. False
  14. Tirukkural
  15. False
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Kalidasa
  19. the Panchatantra
  20. True
  21. True
  22. True
  23. Ramcharitmanas
  24. The Jungle Book
  25. Meghaduta
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Tulsidas
  29. the Mahabharata
  30. Vishnu Sharma
  31. English
  32. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. Gitanjali
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Kalidasa
  37. True
  38. 5
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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