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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 738 · 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: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  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 Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. English
  5. Rama
  6. False
  7. Wings of Fire
  8. Valmiki
  9. 5
  10. 18
  11. False
  12. False
  13. Sanskrit
  14. True
  15. False
  16. Mowgli
  17. Meghaduta
  18. Kalidasa
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. False
  21. Godan
  22. Alice in Wonderland
  23. True
  24. False
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. Lewis Carroll
  29. 18
  30. False
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. Sanskrit
  33. False
  34. Sanskrit
  35. True
  36. Bengali
  37. False
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Ved Vyasa

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