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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 910 · 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.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

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

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