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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 331 · 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) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  18. 18.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  28. 28.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. Kalidasa
  3. False
  4. Kalidasa
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Bengali
  7. animal stories
  8. the Ramayana
  9. Premchand
  10. Wings of Fire
  11. the Panchatantra
  12. 18
  13. 5
  14. Vishnu Sharma
  15. True
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. Lewis Carroll
  18. False
  19. False
  20. Idgah
  21. True
  22. False
  23. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. Awadhi
  25. True
  26. 18
  27. Sanskrit
  28. True
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Alice in Wonderland
  32. False
  33. Rama
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Hindi
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. False
  39. True
  40. English

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