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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 707 · 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 The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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