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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 392 · 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.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  27. 27.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  34. 34.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

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

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