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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 502 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  22. 22.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. False
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. False
  5. Tirukkural
  6. 18
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. True
  9. English
  10. Godan
  11. Tamil
  12. True
  13. Valmiki
  14. True
  15. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. True
  17. True
  18. Rama
  19. True
  20. 18
  21. Mowgli
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Lewis Carroll
  25. False
  26. animal stories
  27. True
  28. True
  29. Wings of Fire
  30. Ramcharitmanas
  31. Kalidasa
  32. False
  33. English
  34. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Krishna
  38. False
  39. the Mahabharata
  40. False

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