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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 147 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  36. 36.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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