Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 949 · 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.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
7. 7.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
12. 12.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
15. 15.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
16. 16.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
19. 19.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
25. 25.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
33. 33.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
34. 34.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit

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