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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 804 · 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: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  21. 21.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  36. 36.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Vishnu Sharma
  3. False
  4. 18
  5. Lewis Carroll
  6. False
  7. 5
  8. Rudyard Kipling
  9. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. animal stories
  11. Mowgli
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. English
  14. Tulsidas
  15. 18
  16. Premchand
  17. Wings of Fire
  18. True
  19. True
  20. English
  21. False
  22. Gitanjali
  23. Tirukkural
  24. False
  25. Ved Vyasa
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Godan
  29. True
  30. True
  31. The Jungle Book
  32. Sanskrit
  33. Idgah
  34. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. Kalidasa
  36. Rama
  37. False
  38. Krishna
  39. True
  40. False

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