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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 75 · 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 Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  10. 10.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. English
  3. 5
  4. 18
  5. Alice in Wonderland
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. English
  8. Idgah
  9. animal stories
  10. True
  11. False
  12. Sanskrit
  13. False
  14. the Panchatantra
  15. 18
  16. Vishnu Sharma
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. True
  19. The Jungle Book
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Kalidasa
  23. Thiruvalluvar
  24. Bengali
  25. Tulsidas
  26. Tamil
  27. False
  28. Hindi
  29. Wings of Fire
  30. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. False
  32. Premchand
  33. Mowgli
  34. False
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. False
  37. the Ramayana
  38. Godan
  39. True
  40. True

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