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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 742 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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