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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 343 · 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.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  38. 38.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman

Answer key

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

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