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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 370 · 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) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

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

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