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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 116 · 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 Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  6. 6.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  40. 40.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. English
  2. True
  3. 18
  4. Mowgli
  5. Bengali
  6. the Panchatantra
  7. True
  8. Tamil
  9. The Jungle Book
  10. English
  11. Sanskrit
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Rudyard Kipling
  14. Awadhi
  15. Ved Vyasa
  16. 5
  17. Tulsidas
  18. Thiruvalluvar
  19. False
  20. Valmiki
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. True
  23. False
  24. animal stories
  25. 18
  26. True
  27. True
  28. True
  29. Ramcharitmanas
  30. Wings of Fire
  31. False
  32. Rama
  33. Rabindranath Tagore
  34. False
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. False
  37. Alice in Wonderland
  38. Hindi
  39. Krishna
  40. True

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