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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 964 · 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.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  7. 7.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. 14.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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