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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 928 · 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 the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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