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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 989 · 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 The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  27. 27.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  33. 33.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  36. 36.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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