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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 537 · 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 Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. 4.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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