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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. False
  4. 18
  5. Rudyard Kipling
  6. 5
  7. True
  8. False
  9. True
  10. Valmiki
  11. the Ramayana
  12. False
  13. False
  14. English
  15. The Jungle Book
  16. Godan
  17. False
  18. English
  19. Tulsidas
  20. Gitanjali
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. 18
  23. True
  24. False
  25. False
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. Premchand
  28. Ramcharitmanas
  29. True
  30. Meghaduta
  31. Rama
  32. True
  33. Rabindranath Tagore
  34. Krishna
  35. True
  36. True
  37. the Panchatantra
  38. False
  39. Alice in Wonderland
  40. False

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