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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 292 · 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) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. Tirukkural
  3. 18
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. Idgah
  6. True
  7. 5
  8. False
  9. Ved Vyasa
  10. False
  11. False
  12. False
  13. True
  14. True
  15. Rudyard Kipling
  16. False
  17. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. False
  19. True
  20. 18
  21. English
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Sanskrit
  24. Krishna
  25. False
  26. Valmiki
  27. False
  28. True
  29. the Ramayana
  30. Lewis Carroll
  31. Sanskrit
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. False
  34. False
  35. animal stories
  36. False
  37. True
  38. Hindi
  39. True
  40. Sanskrit

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