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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 636 · 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: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  13. 13.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  40. 40.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?

Answer key

  1. True
  2. True
  3. 5
  4. True
  5. Mowgli
  6. Lewis Carroll
  7. True
  8. True
  9. English
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Krishna
  12. Rama
  13. Ramcharitmanas
  14. Tamil
  15. the Mahabharata
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. True
  18. True
  19. Wings of Fire
  20. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. False
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Kalidasa
  25. Sanskrit
  26. the Ramayana
  27. the Mahabharata
  28. 18
  29. Premchand
  30. True
  31. False
  32. Tirukkural
  33. animal stories
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Vishnu Sharma
  38. True
  39. Sanskrit
  40. 18

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