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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 883 · 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: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  11. 11.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  24. 24.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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