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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 656 · 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 Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  5. 5.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  7. 7.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  14. 14.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  18. 18.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  31. 31.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire

Answer key

  1. Tirukkural
  2. Alice in Wonderland
  3. English
  4. English
  5. False
  6. Premchand
  7. True
  8. 18
  9. 18
  10. Meghaduta
  11. The Jungle Book
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. Sanskrit
  14. Ramcharitmanas
  15. True
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. Awadhi
  18. False
  19. False
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. True
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Godan
  25. Rama
  26. Valmiki
  27. False
  28. False
  29. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. Mowgli
  31. Gitanjali
  32. Ved Vyasa
  33. False
  34. True
  35. Kalidasa
  36. 5
  37. Vishnu Sharma
  38. Krishna
  39. True
  40. Wings of Fire

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