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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 342 · 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) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Answer key

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

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