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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 821 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  33. 33.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 18
  3. 18
  4. animal stories
  5. False
  6. True
  7. True
  8. English
  9. Mowgli
  10. Kalidasa
  11. Tulsidas
  12. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 5
  14. False
  15. Alice in Wonderland
  16. True
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Premchand
  19. Tamil
  20. False
  21. Sanskrit
  22. False
  23. Tirukkural
  24. False
  25. True
  26. False
  27. Godan
  28. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. Ramcharitmanas
  30. False
  31. The Jungle Book
  32. the Ramayana
  33. the Panchatantra
  34. Kalidasa
  35. False
  36. Awadhi
  37. False
  38. Ved Vyasa
  39. Krishna
  40. False

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