Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 77 · 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.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
4. 4.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
7. 7.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
10. 10.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
21. 21.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
30. 30.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
39. 39.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

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