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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 872 · 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 Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  15. 15.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali

Answer key

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

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