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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 511 · 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) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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