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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 817 · 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 wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand

Answer key

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

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