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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 583 · 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.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Vishnu Sharma
  4. 18
  5. True
  6. Premchand
  7. Tulsidas
  8. animal stories
  9. True
  10. Sanskrit
  11. The Jungle Book
  12. Rabindranath Tagore
  13. English
  14. True
  15. Sanskrit
  16. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. True
  18. 5
  19. Hindi
  20. False
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Tirukkural
  24. the Ramayana
  25. False
  26. False
  27. True
  28. False
  29. the Panchatantra
  30. False
  31. True
  32. True
  33. Alice in Wonderland
  34. False
  35. Rudyard Kipling
  36. Ramcharitmanas
  37. False
  38. Premchand
  39. Godan
  40. True

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