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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 262 · 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.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Godan
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  36. 36.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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