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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 741 · 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: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  7. 7.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

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

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