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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 530 · 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.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Mowgli
  3. False
  4. Rama
  5. Valmiki
  6. The Jungle Book
  7. Wings of Fire
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. the Ramayana
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. True
  12. Tulsidas
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. English
  15. Kalidasa
  16. Lewis Carroll
  17. Awadhi
  18. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. Godan
  20. English
  21. 18
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Premchand
  25. Tirukkural
  26. True
  27. Alice in Wonderland
  28. Premchand
  29. True
  30. 18
  31. Ramcharitmanas
  32. English
  33. Hindi
  34. False
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Thiruvalluvar
  37. False
  38. Gitanjali
  39. False
  40. animal stories

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