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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 319 · 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 wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  6. 6.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

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

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