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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 266 · 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.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. True
  3. Awadhi
  4. Sanskrit
  5. 18
  6. True
  7. 5
  8. Sanskrit
  9. Rudyard Kipling
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Gitanjali
  12. Meghaduta
  13. animal stories
  14. Valmiki
  15. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. Tulsidas
  17. Lewis Carroll
  18. English
  19. Kalidasa
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. Bengali
  22. Idgah
  23. False
  24. English
  25. False
  26. Ramcharitmanas
  27. 18
  28. Vishnu Sharma
  29. the Ramayana
  30. Kalidasa
  31. True
  32. Mowgli
  33. Sanskrit
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. Krishna
  38. False
  39. True
  40. False

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