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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 680 · 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 Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. True
  3. Tirukkural
  4. Kalidasa
  5. 5
  6. Rama
  7. Awadhi
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Premchand
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Krishna
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. False
  14. 18
  15. False
  16. The Jungle Book
  17. False
  18. Ved Vyasa
  19. animal stories
  20. the Panchatantra
  21. Valmiki
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Mowgli
  25. True
  26. 18
  27. True
  28. Idgah
  29. True
  30. Lewis Carroll
  31. True
  32. Sanskrit
  33. Rudyard Kipling
  34. False
  35. True
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Sanskrit
  39. False
  40. False

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