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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 333 · 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) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  8. 8.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

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

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