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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 619 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  40. 40.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Vishnu Sharma
  3. English
  4. Idgah
  5. 5
  6. False
  7. Tirukkural
  8. Krishna
  9. False
  10. True
  11. 18
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. False
  14. Sanskrit
  15. True
  16. False
  17. False
  18. True
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. False
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. True
  24. Wings of Fire
  25. Tulsidas
  26. Mowgli
  27. False
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Hindi
  30. Lewis Carroll
  31. Awadhi
  32. Gitanjali
  33. True
  34. Rabindranath Tagore
  35. False
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Kalidasa
  39. Tamil
  40. the Mahabharata

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