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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 358 · 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 Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  7. 7.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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