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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 775 · 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.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  5. 5.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  12. 12.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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