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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 956 · 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) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  25. 25.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  33. 33.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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