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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 447 · 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: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  5. 5.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  17. 17.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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