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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 347 · 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) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  35. 35.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. False
  3. Ramcharitmanas
  4. Sanskrit
  5. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. Premchand
  7. Meghaduta
  8. 18
  9. False
  10. Rama
  11. Premchand
  12. False
  13. True
  14. English
  15. Godan
  16. True
  17. animal stories
  18. English
  19. the Ramayana
  20. Idgah
  21. False
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. Tamil
  24. False
  25. Vishnu Sharma
  26. Krishna
  27. False
  28. Kalidasa
  29. English
  30. 18
  31. 5
  32. True
  33. Awadhi
  34. Bengali
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Sanskrit
  39. True
  40. Ved Vyasa

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