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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 704 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  10. 10.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire

Answer key

  1. Bengali
  2. 18
  3. Tirukkural
  4. Tamil
  5. English
  6. 18
  7. Godan
  8. False
  9. animal stories
  10. False
  11. False
  12. True
  13. 5
  14. Mowgli
  15. True
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. True
  18. Ramcharitmanas
  19. the Ramayana
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. Lewis Carroll
  23. English
  24. True
  25. Vishnu Sharma
  26. False
  27. Sanskrit
  28. Awadhi
  29. Rama
  30. True
  31. Alice in Wonderland
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. Wings of Fire
  34. True
  35. English
  36. Sanskrit
  37. Valmiki
  38. False
  39. False
  40. The Jungle Book

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