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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 686 · 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 the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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