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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 625 · 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.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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