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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 382 · 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 Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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