Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 464 · 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 Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
7. 7.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
9. 9.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
31. 31.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
36. 36.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
40. 40.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True

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