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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 813 · 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.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  11. 11.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  32. 32.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  36. 36.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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