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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 882 · 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.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  17. 17.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  36. 36.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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