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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 927 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  2. 2.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  35. 35.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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