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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 485 · 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.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  10. 10.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  15. 15.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  21. 21.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  32. 32.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  38. 38.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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