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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 908 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  4. 4.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  39. 39.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

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

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