← Books, epics and their authors lesson New set →

Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 222 · 40 questions
TalentJR

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.

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

Answer key

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

Free gk lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/gk-worksheets