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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 383 · 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 Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  3. 3.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. Rudyard Kipling
  3. False
  4. 18
  5. the Panchatantra
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. English
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. The Jungle Book
  10. 18
  11. animal stories
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. Godan
  14. Tirukkural
  15. True
  16. True
  17. Mowgli
  18. False
  19. True
  20. False
  21. the Ramayana
  22. English
  23. Alice in Wonderland
  24. True
  25. False
  26. True
  27. Ramcharitmanas
  28. Sanskrit
  29. False
  30. English
  31. False
  32. Krishna
  33. False
  34. True
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Kalidasa
  37. False
  38. False
  39. False
  40. 5

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