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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 202 · 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 Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  9. 9.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

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

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