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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 780 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  11. 11.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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