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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 703 · 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) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  8. 8.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. 5
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. Rama
  5. Sanskrit
  6. Kalidasa
  7. Krishna
  8. False
  9. False
  10. Sanskrit
  11. False
  12. the Ramayana
  13. False
  14. Valmiki
  15. Hindi
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. Rabindranath Tagore
  18. Ramcharitmanas
  19. True
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Awadhi
  22. False
  23. 18
  24. animal stories
  25. Gitanjali
  26. True
  27. Lewis Carroll
  28. the Mahabharata
  29. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  30. the Panchatantra
  31. Tirukkural
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Mowgli
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. Idgah
  37. False
  38. 18
  39. False
  40. Vishnu Sharma

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