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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 395 · 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: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

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

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