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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 661 · 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) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Mowgli
  2. the Ramayana
  3. Tamil
  4. False
  5. True
  6. Rama
  7. Krishna
  8. 18
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Premchand
  11. True
  12. False
  13. Meghaduta
  14. True
  15. False
  16. False
  17. False
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. Awadhi
  21. Gitanjali
  22. Alice in Wonderland
  23. Sanskrit
  24. Sanskrit
  25. English
  26. False
  27. Premchand
  28. Hindi
  29. False
  30. True
  31. False
  32. True
  33. Lewis Carroll
  34. True
  35. animal stories
  36. True
  37. True
  38. The Jungle Book
  39. False
  40. False

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