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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 105 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  7. 7.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

  1. English
  2. False
  3. Alice in Wonderland
  4. False
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Ramcharitmanas
  7. True
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. True
  10. 18
  11. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. Tulsidas
  13. Mowgli
  14. Sanskrit
  15. animal stories
  16. Krishna
  17. the Ramayana
  18. Idgah
  19. 5
  20. Rama
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Tirukkural
  23. True
  24. True
  25. 18
  26. Thiruvalluvar
  27. Awadhi
  28. Rudyard Kipling
  29. True
  30. False
  31. English
  32. Kalidasa
  33. Kalidasa
  34. False
  35. True
  36. True
  37. True
  38. English
  39. True
  40. Ved Vyasa

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