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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 807 · 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: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  36. 36.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. True
  3. 18
  4. the Ramayana
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. True
  8. False
  9. Premchand
  10. Rudyard Kipling
  11. 18
  12. True
  13. 5
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. False
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Kalidasa
  19. True
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. animal stories
  22. Thiruvalluvar
  23. Meghaduta
  24. Wings of Fire
  25. False
  26. Vishnu Sharma
  27. False
  28. False
  29. English
  30. English
  31. False
  32. False
  33. English
  34. Sanskrit
  35. Valmiki
  36. the Mahabharata
  37. Tirukkural
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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