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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 46 · 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 Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas

Answer key

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

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