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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 452 · 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: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  19. 19.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 5
  3. Premchand
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. Rama
  7. 18
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Meghaduta
  10. True
  11. Godan
  12. False
  13. True
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. English
  16. Rudyard Kipling
  17. animal stories
  18. Mowgli
  19. False
  20. Hindi
  21. False
  22. 18
  23. Gitanjali
  24. Wings of Fire
  25. False
  26. True
  27. False
  28. True
  29. the Panchatantra
  30. Vishnu Sharma
  31. True
  32. Thiruvalluvar
  33. True
  34. The Jungle Book
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Awadhi
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Premchand

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