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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 653 · 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: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  31. 31.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali

Answer key

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

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