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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 417 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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