Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 445 · 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 Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
11. 11.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
15. 15.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
32. 32.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit

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