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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 879 · 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.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  8. 8.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

  1. False
  2. True
  3. False
  4. Mowgli
  5. 18
  6. True
  7. Krishna
  8. True
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Rama
  11. 5
  12. the Ramayana
  13. Tirukkural
  14. True
  15. False
  16. False
  17. True
  18. False
  19. 18
  20. Vishnu Sharma
  21. Tamil
  22. Tulsidas
  23. English
  24. False
  25. True
  26. False
  27. False
  28. True
  29. True
  30. False
  31. Sanskrit
  32. English
  33. Rudyard Kipling
  34. animal stories
  35. False
  36. the Panchatantra
  37. False
  38. Thiruvalluvar
  39. False
  40. Alice in Wonderland

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