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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 629 · 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: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  7. 7.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  10. 10.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  36. 36.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Mowgli
  4. 18
  5. English
  6. animal stories
  7. True
  8. Premchand
  9. Rama
  10. False
  11. False
  12. False
  13. True
  14. True
  15. Alice in Wonderland
  16. Tulsidas
  17. True
  18. False
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. Hindi
  22. Wings of Fire
  23. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. Tirukkural
  25. False
  26. Sanskrit
  27. Ved Vyasa
  28. False
  29. the Ramayana
  30. Rudyard Kipling
  31. True
  32. False
  33. False
  34. True
  35. Krishna
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. False

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