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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 837 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  5. 5.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  27. 27.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  39. 39.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Kalidasa
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. Alice in Wonderland
  5. True
  6. 18
  7. False
  8. Thiruvalluvar
  9. 18
  10. Ved Vyasa
  11. False
  12. False
  13. False
  14. Tirukkural
  15. Hindi
  16. False
  17. Awadhi
  18. animal stories
  19. Meghaduta
  20. Ramcharitmanas
  21. Wings of Fire
  22. False
  23. Krishna
  24. True
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. Godan
  27. True
  28. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. Rudyard Kipling
  30. the Panchatantra
  31. Rabindranath Tagore
  32. English
  33. Rama
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. True
  38. Premchand
  39. Gitanjali
  40. Sanskrit

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