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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 845 · 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 Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  12. 12.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Lewis Carroll
  2. True
  3. Wings of Fire
  4. Awadhi
  5. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. 18
  7. False
  8. English
  9. Sanskrit
  10. Rudyard Kipling
  11. Krishna
  12. Gitanjali
  13. False
  14. Premchand
  15. Kalidasa
  16. Valmiki
  17. animal stories
  18. 5
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. Kalidasa
  21. English
  22. the Ramayana
  23. False
  24. Premchand
  25. Tulsidas
  26. False
  27. Tirukkural
  28. True
  29. Mowgli
  30. True
  31. Ramcharitmanas
  32. True
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. Thiruvalluvar
  35. False
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Bengali
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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