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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 988 · 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.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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