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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 760 · 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.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  31. 31.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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