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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 476 · 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.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  28. 28.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English

Answer key

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

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