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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 926 · 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: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  38. 38.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa

Answer key

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

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