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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 867 · 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) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  12. 12.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  23. 23.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  31. 31.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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