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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 259 · 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) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  21. 21.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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