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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 325 · 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 the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  4. 4.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  18. 18.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  19. 19.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Vishnu Sharma
  2. Alice in Wonderland
  3. Mowgli
  4. False
  5. the Panchatantra
  6. Tamil
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. Krishna
  9. Meghaduta
  10. Tulsidas
  11. 5
  12. False
  13. True
  14. False
  15. True
  16. 18
  17. Hindi
  18. Wings of Fire
  19. False
  20. animal stories
  21. False
  22. False
  23. Rama
  24. True
  25. True
  26. Valmiki
  27. 18
  28. False
  29. Thiruvalluvar
  30. Idgah
  31. The Jungle Book
  32. Bengali
  33. False
  34. Rudyard Kipling
  35. Godan
  36. True
  37. False
  38. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. False
  40. False

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