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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 728 · 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 Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  16. 16.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. 20.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  27. 27.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan

Answer key

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

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