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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 321 · 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: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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