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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 690 · 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 Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  22. 22.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. Gitanjali
  3. animal stories
  4. Mowgli
  5. Premchand
  6. 18
  7. English
  8. Vishnu Sharma
  9. True
  10. Bengali
  11. The Jungle Book
  12. Idgah
  13. Sanskrit
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. English
  16. the Ramayana
  17. True
  18. False
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. True
  21. Rama
  22. False
  23. 5
  24. English
  25. False
  26. Godan
  27. True
  28. False
  29. 18
  30. False
  31. Thiruvalluvar
  32. Rudyard Kipling
  33. Valmiki
  34. Tulsidas
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Krishna
  38. the Panchatantra
  39. Tamil
  40. True

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