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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 244 · 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.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  7. 7.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. Rama
  3. 5
  4. 18
  5. True
  6. animal stories
  7. True
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Valmiki
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Idgah
  12. 18
  13. Sanskrit
  14. Wings of Fire
  15. False
  16. True
  17. Premchand
  18. Krishna
  19. False
  20. Vishnu Sharma
  21. True
  22. Tirukkural
  23. False
  24. Awadhi
  25. Tamil
  26. False
  27. True
  28. Gitanjali
  29. Meghaduta
  30. the Panchatantra
  31. False
  32. English
  33. False
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  38. the Mahabharata
  39. Bengali
  40. True

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