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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 575 · 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) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  4. 4.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  24. 24.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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