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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 642 · 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: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  6. 6.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  39. 39.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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