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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

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

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