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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 188 · 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 wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  19. 19.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil

Answer key

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

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