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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 148 · 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: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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