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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 468 · 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 Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  2. 2.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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