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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 662 · 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 Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  35. 35.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

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

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