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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 709 · 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.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Gitanjali
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. Vishnu Sharma
  5. False
  6. False
  7. Thiruvalluvar
  8. Sanskrit
  9. the Panchatantra
  10. True
  11. Ved Vyasa
  12. Tamil
  13. the Ramayana
  14. 5
  15. False
  16. 18
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. English
  19. Wings of Fire
  20. Rama
  21. Kalidasa
  22. Valmiki
  23. Sanskrit
  24. True
  25. True
  26. True
  27. Tirukkural
  28. True
  29. Bengali
  30. True
  31. False
  32. Mowgli
  33. Idgah
  34. False
  35. Tulsidas
  36. False
  37. Lewis Carroll
  38. False
  39. English
  40. True

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