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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 895 · 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: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  4. 4.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  33. 33.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  37. 37.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural

Answer key

  1. True
  2. True
  3. Krishna
  4. True
  5. Wings of Fire
  6. Alice in Wonderland
  7. Premchand
  8. False
  9. True
  10. Rabindranath Tagore
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. False
  13. Mowgli
  14. Kalidasa
  15. 5
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. False
  18. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. Kalidasa
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Gitanjali
  23. False
  24. Tulsidas
  25. Lewis Carroll
  26. 18
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Tirukkural
  30. 18
  31. False
  32. the Ramayana
  33. the Panchatantra
  34. Vishnu Sharma
  35. False
  36. the Mahabharata
  37. animal stories
  38. Sanskrit
  39. Rama
  40. Idgah

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