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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 43 · 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 The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. 9.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

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

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