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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 209 · 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.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  5. 5.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil

Answer key

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

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