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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 722 · 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: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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