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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 970 · 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: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. 9.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  18. 18.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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