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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 564 · 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: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  4. 4.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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