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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 820 · 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.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  10. 10.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  21. 21.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories

Answer key

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

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