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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 320 · 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: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  10. 10.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. True
  2. True
  3. Tulsidas
  4. Ramcharitmanas
  5. True
  6. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 18
  8. Wings of Fire
  9. English
  10. True
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Sanskrit
  13. 18
  14. Godan
  15. 5
  16. Gitanjali
  17. False
  18. Valmiki
  19. Lewis Carroll
  20. the Ramayana
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. Krishna
  23. Thiruvalluvar
  24. Mowgli
  25. animal stories
  26. False
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Vishnu Sharma
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Idgah
  33. True
  34. Kalidasa
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. True
  37. Awadhi
  38. True
  39. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. English

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