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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 307 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  26. 26.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  38. 38.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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