Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 389 · 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 the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
5. 5.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
14. 14.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
17. 17.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
20. 20.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
29. 29.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
33. 33.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo

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