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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 889 · 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 which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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