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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 816 · 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: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  4. 4.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  34. 34.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Mowgli
  3. Rama
  4. True
  5. Premchand
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Idgah
  8. the Ramayana
  9. animal stories
  10. Premchand
  11. Bengali
  12. Kalidasa
  13. False
  14. Valmiki
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. Tulsidas
  17. False
  18. Tirukkural
  19. True
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Alice in Wonderland
  24. English
  25. False
  26. False
  27. False
  28. English
  29. 5
  30. Kalidasa
  31. True
  32. Lewis Carroll
  33. Thiruvalluvar
  34. 18
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. Gitanjali

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