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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 398 · 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 Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  36. 36.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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