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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 744 · 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) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  24. 24.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali

Answer key

  1. Wings of Fire
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Krishna
  5. the Ramayana
  6. 5
  7. True
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Alice in Wonderland
  10. Bengali
  11. False
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. Ramcharitmanas
  14. Awadhi
  15. True
  16. 18
  17. Gitanjali
  18. animal stories
  19. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. Tulsidas
  21. Idgah
  22. True
  23. Mowgli
  24. True
  25. Sanskrit
  26. False
  27. Rabindranath Tagore
  28. English
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Sanskrit
  33. False
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Rama
  39. Hindi
  40. Sanskrit

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