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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 279 · 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) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  19. 19.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  21. 21.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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