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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

Answer key

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

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