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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 469 · 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.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  7. 7.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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