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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 440 · 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: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  7. 7.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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