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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 486 · 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 Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

  1. Alice in Wonderland
  2. True
  3. Rama
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. True
  7. English
  8. Gitanjali
  9. 5
  10. Tirukkural
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. True
  14. Tamil
  15. Valmiki
  16. Ved Vyasa
  17. Kalidasa
  18. Bengali
  19. 18
  20. Sanskrit
  21. False
  22. True
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. Thiruvalluvar
  25. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. Premchand
  27. True
  28. Sanskrit
  29. animal stories
  30. Hindi
  31. False
  32. Mowgli
  33. False
  34. Rabindranath Tagore
  35. English
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Vishnu Sharma
  39. False
  40. the Ramayana

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