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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 736 · 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.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  20. 20.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand

Answer key

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

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