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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 871 · 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.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  2. 2.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  22. 22.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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