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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 547 · 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: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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