Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 285 · 40 questions

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.

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

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