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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 167 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  2. 2.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  28. 28.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  34. 34.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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