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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 906 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  12. 12.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. English
  3. True
  4. 18
  5. 18
  6. Vishnu Sharma
  7. English
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. False
  10. Kalidasa
  11. Krishna
  12. False
  13. True
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. Thiruvalluvar
  16. Rama
  17. the Ramayana
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. Mowgli
  20. Premchand
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. Ramcharitmanas
  23. False
  24. Sanskrit
  25. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. False
  27. True
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. False
  32. Gitanjali
  33. True
  34. Premchand
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Lewis Carroll
  39. True
  40. False

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