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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 172 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  19. 19.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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