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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 627 · 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) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  11. 11.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  12. 12.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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