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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 598 · 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: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  21. 21.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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