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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 329 · 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 Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  16. 16.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  25. 25.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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