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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 574 · 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.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  2. 2.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  36. 36.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. False
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. True
  5. English
  6. Idgah
  7. Awadhi
  8. Sanskrit
  9. Premchand
  10. Premchand
  11. Rabindranath Tagore
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. False
  14. English
  15. Lewis Carroll
  16. 5
  17. Gitanjali
  18. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. Wings of Fire
  20. False
  21. Rama
  22. False
  23. 18
  24. Sanskrit
  25. Bengali
  26. Krishna
  27. the Ramayana
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Thiruvalluvar
  30. True
  31. False
  32. Alice in Wonderland
  33. Sanskrit
  34. False
  35. Meghaduta
  36. 18
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. False
  39. False
  40. English

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