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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 941 · 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 Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  2. 2.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  19. 19.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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