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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 580 · 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.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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