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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 681 · 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: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  7. 7.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  18. 18.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  23. 23.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 18
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Tirukkural
  5. animal stories
  6. Sanskrit
  7. False
  8. English
  9. the Panchatantra
  10. True
  11. Vishnu Sharma
  12. False
  13. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. Bengali
  18. False
  19. True
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. True
  22. Wings of Fire
  23. False
  24. Krishna
  25. English
  26. True
  27. Rabindranath Tagore
  28. Ved Vyasa
  29. True
  30. the Ramayana
  31. Mowgli
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Premchand
  35. False
  36. Awadhi
  37. False
  38. 18
  39. True
  40. False

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