← Books, epics and their authors lesson New set →

Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 289 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  28. 28.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Hindi
  2. Awadhi
  3. Tirukkural
  4. English
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. Mowgli
  7. False
  8. Tulsidas
  9. 18
  10. True
  11. Rabindranath Tagore
  12. True
  13. False
  14. 5
  15. The Jungle Book
  16. True
  17. animal stories
  18. Ramcharitmanas
  19. Lewis Carroll
  20. Rama
  21. Premchand
  22. Idgah
  23. 18
  24. English
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. True
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. False
  29. the Panchatantra
  30. Sanskrit
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Krishna
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Wings of Fire
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Bengali
  40. True

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