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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 191 · 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 Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  4. 4.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book

Answer key

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

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