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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 836 · 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) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

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

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