Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

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

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