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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 880 · 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.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. 4.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 10.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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