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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 315 · 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.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. True
  3. False
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5
  6. True
  7. False
  8. Vishnu Sharma
  9. the Panchatantra
  10. True
  11. Tirukkural
  12. 18
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Rama
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. False
  18. Mowgli
  19. True
  20. Tamil
  21. Idgah
  22. The Jungle Book
  23. Godan
  24. Krishna
  25. Tulsidas
  26. Sanskrit
  27. False
  28. animal stories
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Sanskrit
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. Rudyard Kipling
  34. Sanskrit
  35. False
  36. False
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Alice in Wonderland
  40. the Ramayana

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