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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 676 · 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 Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  12. 12.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  16. 16.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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