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Print Culture and the Modern World
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Test 1
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Q1. Who among the following published 'Punjab Kesri'?
Q2. Which one of the following books was printed first by Gutenberg?
Q3. Who were called ‘Chapmen’?
Q4. Who among the following brought out ‘Bengal Gazette; the first weekly newspaper?
Q5. Which one of the following was published by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
Q6. Which one of the following was NOT the reason for the popularity of scientific ideas among the common people in eighteenth century Europe?
Q7. Why was reading of manuscript not easy in India? Choose the appropriate reason from the following options:
Q8. Identify the French artist who prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world from the following:
Q9. Which of the following is the first book printed by printing press?
Q10. Which scholar expressed a deep anxiety about printing?
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Test 2
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Q1. Assertion (A): Print culture played a major role in the spread of the Protestant Reformation. Reason (R): Printing allowed Martin Luther’s ideas to reach a wider audience quickly.
Q2. Leading libraries in England became instruments for educating:
Q3. The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the:
Q4. What was the impact of printing press on skilled handwriters?
Q5. What is Vellum?
Q6. Who wrote My Childhood and My University?
Q7. Which country was a major producer of print material for a long time? 1Mark
Q8. What is mean by Caricatures?
Q9. Where did the development of print first begin?
Q10. Assertion (A): The invention of the printing press led to the spread of new ideas. Reason (R): The printing press made books cheaper and more accessible to people.
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Test 3
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Q1. In 1517, the religious reformer Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses criticising many of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church, what was its outcome? 1. They were ignored by the church. 2. A printed copy of this was posted on a church door in Wittenberg. It challenged the Church to debate his ideas. 3. Luther’s writings were immediately reproduced in vast numbers and read widely. 4. This lead to a division within the Church and to the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s translation of the New Testament sold 5,000 copies within a few weeks.
Q2. What is a Chapbook? A
Q3. Assertion (A): In ancient times, handwritten manuscripts were easily available to common people. Reason (R): Manuscripts were inexpensive and mass-produced.
Q4. Assertion (A): Religious reformers used print media to spread their ideas against social evils. Reason (R): Print made it possible to reach a mass audience.
Q5. Whose name is associated with Kesari?
Q6. China already had the technology of woodblock printing. Marco Polo brought this knowledge back with him to:
Q7. When was the Vernacular press act passed
Q8. ........ a Yorkshire mechanic, narrated how he would rent old newspapers and read them by firelight in the evening as he couldn't afford candles.
Q9. As Western powers established their outposts in China, ______ became the hub of the new print culture.
Q10. The Grimm Brothers hailed from:
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Test 4
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Q1. Which moral thoughts were written by Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot in their novels?
Q2. For which of the following, Woodblock printing was used in Europe?
Q3. ‘Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal’ was published in which year? 1Mark
Q4. What was Gutenberg’s first printed book?
Q5. Ninety Five Theses criticising many of the practices or rituals of the Roman Catholic Church was written by:
Q6. What happened after the revolt of 1857? 1. Enraged Englishmen demanded a clamp down on the ‘native’ press. 2. As vernacular newspapers became assertively nationalist, the colonial government began debating measures of stringent control. 3. No rights for Indians to write. 4. Only English writings to be published.
Q7. What other benefits came through printing during this period? 1. Newspapers and jurnal for information on wars and trade. 2. Publications related to science with maps and diagrams. 3. Not much benefit as printing was limited. 4. Writings of thinkers such as Thomas Paine, Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau were also widely printed and read.
Q8. By the end of the nineteenth century, a new visual culture was taking shape, what was it? 1. Cheap prints and calendars, easily available in the bazaar, the poor decorated their homes. 2. Painters like Raja Ravi Varma produced images for mass circulation. 3. These prints began shaping popular ideas about modernity and tradition, religion and politics, and society and culture. 4. Caricatures and cartoons were being published.
Q9. In 1517, the religious reformer Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses criticising many of the practices and rituals of the:
Q10. Assertion (A): Print culture helped in promoting ideas of nationalism during the freedom struggle. Reason (R): Newspapers and books spread political messages to inspire masses.
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Test 5
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Q1. What did Menocchio, the miller, do?
Q2. Assertion (A): The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 encouraged the Indian language newspapers. Reason (R): The British were worried about the influence of vernacular press on Indians.
Q3. What further advancement did this new reading culture bring about?
Q4. What were the main characteristics of these printed books? 1. The metal letters imitated the ornamental handwritten styles. 2. Borders were illuminated by hand with foliage and other patterns, and illustrations were painted. 3. In the books printed for the rich, space for decoration was kept blank on the printed page. 4. Each purchaser could choose the design and decide on the painting school that would do the illustrations.
Q5. Which book of Jyotiba Phule was based on the caste system?
Q6. The reformation movement was launched against the corrupt practices of which of the following group?
Q7. The book Ninety Five Theses was written in the year
Q8. A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas are called as? 1Mark
Q9. Why did the Roman Church begin to maintain an Index of Prohibited Books from 1558? 1. Interference of foriegn writers. 2. Giving too many independent beliefs to people through books. 3. Troubled by such effects of popular readings and questionings of faith. 4. Writing and printing of heretical beliefs.
Q10. When Punjab revolutionaries were deported in 1907, who wrote with great sympathy about them in his Kesari?
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Test 6
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Q1. The first Indian newspaper to appear was the:
Q2. What was the reason behind the popularity of woodblock printing in 15th century Europe to print textiles, playing cards, and religious pictures with simple, brief texts? 1. Demand for books increased, booksellers all over Europe began exporting books to many different countries. 2. Production of handwritten manuscripts was also organised in new ways to meet the expanded demand. 3. Production of handwritten manuscripts could not satisfy the ever-increasing demand for books. 4. Copying was an expensive, laborious and time-consuming business.
Q3. Why did the early twentieth century, journals, written for and sometimes edited by women, become popular?
Q4. Bal Gangadhar was imprisoned in:
Q5. Assertion (A): Print culture had no impact on the spread of scientific ideas. Reason (R): Only oral traditions helped spread scientific knowledge.
Q6. Ramcharitmanas’ was written by
Q7. Assertion (A): By the nineteenth century, reading became a leisure activity for many people. Reason (R): The availability of cheaper books made reading accessible to ordinary people.
Q8. Which of the following statements about Manuscripts are true?
Q9. Edo later on came to be known as:
Q10. How many sheets could Gutenberg press print on one side per hour?
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Test 7
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Q1. When did Chinese paper reach Europe?
Q2. Penny magazines were about:
Q3. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries how did literacy rates grow?
Q4. Penny magazines were especially meant for:
Q5. Shanghai became the hub of the new print culture, catering to the Western-style schools.
Q6. Were the common people able to have access to reading? 1. No, many were not literate. 2. No, they lived in a world of oral culture. They heard sacred texts read out, ballads recited, and folk tales narrated. 3. They were able to get the hand me downs from the rich. 4. They bought books just like the rich.
Q7. The first printing press was developed in
Q8. Printing was first developed in
Q9. What impact did print have regarding the French Revolution? 1. Print popularised the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers, their writings provided a critical commentary on tradition, superstition and despotism and reasoning. 2. Print created a new culture of dialogue and debate. 3. By the 1780s there was literature that mocked the royalty and monarchy and criticised their morality, along with cartoons and caricatures. 4. People were not affected directly but they did pay attention.
Q10. Richard M. Hoe belonged to which of the following country?
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Test 8
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Q1. Assertion (A): Early printed books in India were mostly religious in nature. Reason (R): Religious reformers used print as a tool to spread their messages.
Q2. How were the ancient handwritten manuscripts in India preserved?
Q3. “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one”. Who spoke these words?
Q4. In which book of Jyotiba Phule wrote about the Injustice of the Caste System?
Q5. When was Marco Polo, a great explorer, returned to Italy after many years of exploration in China?
Q6. Who introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD 768-770?
Q7. The ritual calenders were called:
Q8. Which of the following book was written by millworker, Kashibaba, in 1938?
Q9. Who among the following repealed the vernacular press act
Q10. During 1870s which journals became widely popular?
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Test 9
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Q1. When was the book ‘Amar Jiban’ was published?
Q2. Among the following who wrote about caste discrimination?
Q3. Marco Polo returned to Italy after many years of exploration in:
Q4. ______ a term used to describe pocket-sized books that are sold by traveling peddlers called Chapman, which became popular from the time of the sixteenth-century print revolution?
Q5. By the early fifteenth century, woodblocks were being widely used in Europe to:
Q6. Which city became the hub of the new print culture?
Q7. By the late eighteenth century the press came to made up of:
Q8. When did the first printed edition of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, a sixteenth-century text, come out?
Q9. Istri Dharm Vichar was published by: 1Mark
Q10. What did the Deoband Seminary, founded in 1867, publish?
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Test 10
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Q1. India had a very rich and old tradition of hand-written manuscripts in:
Q2. Which of the following statements are true about printing?
Q3. What was printed in Penney magazines?
Q4. Where was the world's first newspaper published?
Q5. What changes occurred in the seventeenth century, as urban culture bloomed in China? 1. Print was no longer used just by scholar officials. 2. Merchants used print in their everyday life, as they collected trade information. 3. New readership preferred fictional narratives, poetry, autobiographies, anthologies of literary masterpieces, and romantic plays. 4. Women began publishing their poetry and plays. Wives of scholar-officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives.
Q6. What began English printing in India? 1Mark
Q7. Which of the following was the first Hindi newspaper?
Q8. ______ were the beliefs which do not follow the accepted teachings of the Church?
Q9. In the late eighteenth century, in the flourishing urban circles of Tokyo _______ had become very popular along with the text in the books. 1. Visual material. 2. Advertising products. 3. Print photography. 4. Paintings in print.
Q10. What was presented by social reformers in their writing?
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