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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 972 · 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 Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  30. 30.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (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: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?

Answer key

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

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