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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 794 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  18. 18.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  38. 38.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. Alice in Wonderland
  5. Premchand
  6. False
  7. Godan
  8. Rama
  9. True
  10. Mowgli
  11. Thiruvalluvar
  12. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. Sanskrit
  14. 18
  15. True
  16. English
  17. Tulsidas
  18. True
  19. False
  20. Bengali
  21. Tirukkural
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Hindi
  25. 18
  26. The Jungle Book
  27. Valmiki
  28. 5
  29. Lewis Carroll
  30. the Ramayana
  31. Ved Vyasa
  32. Rabindranath Tagore
  33. Tamil
  34. True
  35. False
  36. the Mahabharata
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Ramcharitmanas
  39. Krishna
  40. Rudyard Kipling

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