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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 671 · 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.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  10. 10.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  12. 12.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  19. 19.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  33. 33.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas

Answer key

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

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