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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 665 · 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) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  38. 38.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

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

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