Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 758 · 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.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
6. 6.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
10. 10.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
14. 14.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
29. 29.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
34. 34.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
39. 39.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False

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