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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 123 · 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) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  4. 4.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  6. 6.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  14. 14.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  16. 16.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas

Answer key

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

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