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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 226 · 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 the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  10. 10.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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