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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 509 · 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 The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  3. 3.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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