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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 372 · 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 the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  8. 8.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Vishnu Sharma
  2. Gitanjali
  3. True
  4. Premchand
  5. 18
  6. False
  7. Alice in Wonderland
  8. Tirukkural
  9. English
  10. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Wings of Fire
  13. True
  14. Kalidasa
  15. Krishna
  16. Lewis Carroll
  17. False
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. Meghaduta
  20. Ved Vyasa
  21. 5
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Tamil
  25. animal stories
  26. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. Hindi
  28. Thiruvalluvar
  29. True
  30. 18
  31. Kalidasa
  32. True
  33. Mowgli
  34. Rama
  35. the Ramayana
  36. Premchand
  37. False
  38. True
  39. True
  40. True

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