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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 106 · 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.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  5. 5.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  16. 16.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. English
  3. 18
  4. Ramcharitmanas
  5. True
  6. Krishna
  7. True
  8. Kalidasa
  9. Hindi
  10. False
  11. Godan
  12. 18
  13. Bengali
  14. Mowgli
  15. Rama
  16. False
  17. Alice in Wonderland
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Premchand
  21. English
  22. Rudyard Kipling
  23. False
  24. True
  25. False
  26. False
  27. animal stories
  28. 5
  29. Vishnu Sharma
  30. The Jungle Book
  31. Sanskrit
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. False
  34. False
  35. False
  36. Idgah
  37. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. True
  39. the Ramayana
  40. True

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