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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 190 · 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 Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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