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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 990 · 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 The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  26. 26.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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