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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 763 · 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.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  3. 3.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  23. 23.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  24. 24.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  29. 29.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Mowgli
  3. False
  4. Krishna
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Awadhi
  7. Gitanjali
  8. animal stories
  9. False
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. English
  12. Tirukkural
  13. False
  14. False
  15. 5
  16. Sanskrit
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Alice in Wonderland
  19. Rudyard Kipling
  20. 18
  21. True
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  24. True
  25. Rabindranath Tagore
  26. True
  27. True
  28. Rama
  29. False
  30. 18
  31. False
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. True
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. English
  36. English
  37. Hindi
  38. False
  39. Ramcharitmanas
  40. False

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