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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 719 · 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) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  22. 22.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book

Answer key

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

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