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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 697 · 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 Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  3. 3.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  6. 6.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  12. 12.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali

Answer key

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

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