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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 540 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  9. 9.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  35. 35.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  36. 36.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Wings of Fire
  3. Sanskrit
  4. 5
  5. 18
  6. False
  7. False
  8. Rama
  9. Tirukkural
  10. English
  11. The Jungle Book
  12. Valmiki
  13. English
  14. True
  15. Tulsidas
  16. True
  17. 18
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Ramcharitmanas
  21. False
  22. False
  23. True
  24. True
  25. the Panchatantra
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. Premchand
  28. Ved Vyasa
  29. False
  30. False
  31. English
  32. True
  33. Alice in Wonderland
  34. animal stories
  35. Mowgli
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Hindi
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Gitanjali

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