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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 747 · 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 the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  5. 5.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  10. 10.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Mowgli
  3. True
  4. English
  5. True
  6. Meghaduta
  7. Rudyard Kipling
  8. 5
  9. Rama
  10. Alice in Wonderland
  11. Krishna
  12. Premchand
  13. the Ramayana
  14. True
  15. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. False
  18. Tirukkural
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Premchand
  23. False
  24. Ramcharitmanas
  25. Tulsidas
  26. English
  27. 18
  28. the Mahabharata
  29. True
  30. the Mahabharata
  31. True
  32. False
  33. animal stories
  34. Kalidasa
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Wings of Fire
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Gitanjali

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