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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 422 · 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 Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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