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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 674 · 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 Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  33. 33.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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