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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 232 · 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) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  7. 7.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  20. 20.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  30. 30.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ramcharitmanas
  2. Wings of Fire
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. English
  5. Godan
  6. Mowgli
  7. False
  8. False
  9. Thiruvalluvar
  10. Kalidasa
  11. Valmiki
  12. Rama
  13. 18
  14. True
  15. Krishna
  16. False
  17. True
  18. Idgah
  19. Alice in Wonderland
  20. Tirukkural
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Hindi
  24. True
  25. the Ramayana
  26. Sanskrit
  27. 18
  28. the Mahabharata
  29. Sanskrit
  30. animal stories
  31. Premchand
  32. True
  33. English
  34. True
  35. Rabindranath Tagore
  36. False
  37. The Jungle Book
  38. Sanskrit
  39. 5
  40. False

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