PRINT CULTURE AND THE MORDERN WORLD
1. Who was Marcopolo?
Answer: (d) Italian traveller/explorer
2. Bengal Gazette was :
Answer: (b) A weekly English magazine edited by James Hickey from 1780, described as a commercial
paper open to all, influenced by none
3. Which problem has been raised in Gulamgiri?
Answer: (a) The injustices of caste system
4. The earliest kind of print technology was developed in :
Answer: (c) China, Japan and Korea
5. Who wrote about the injustices of the caste system in ‘Gulamgiri’? [CBSE 2011]
Answer: (b) Jyotiba Phule
6. Which of the following statements does not support the view of some historians that Print Culture
was the basis for the French Revolution?
Answer: (c) Print did not directly shape the people’s minds but opened up the possibility of thinking
differently
7. The Bengal Gazette was edited by
Answer: (c) James Augustus Hickey
8. The term ‘Calligraph’ means :
Answer: (b) The art of beautiful and stylised writing
9. Which of the following refers to print revolution?
Answer: (b) Shift from hand printing to mechanical printing
10. The contribution of Grimm Brothers of Germany to children’s literature was :
Answer: (b) Spending years on compiling traditional folktales gathered from peasants, editing and
publishing them as a collection in 1812
11. The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and
Answer: (a) Korea
12. The first to use wood-block printing in Europe were :
Answer: (b) The Spaniards
13. Aim of Protestant Reformation was to:
Answer: (b) reform the Catholic church
14.The book, ‘Chote Aur Bade Ka Sawal’ talked about
Answer: (a) the link between caste and class exploitation
15. Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one.”?
Answer: (d) Martin Luther
16. Why was James Augustus Hickey persecuted by Governor General Warren Hastings?
Answer: (b) For publishing a lot of gossip about company’s Senior Official
17. The printing press was first introduced in India by which one of the following
Answer: (c) Protuguese missionaries
18. Diomond Sultra is the oldest printed book of
Answer: (c) Japan
19. By whom was ‘ Sambad Kaumudi’ published in 1821?
Answer: (c) Raja Rammohun Roy
20. Which one among the following is an ancient name of Tokyo?
Answer: (c) Edo
21. Penny magazines were especially meant for
Answer: (c) women
22. In ancient India which of the following material was used for writing manuscripts?
Answer: (b) Vellum
23. Which of the following is the correct meaning of ‘Biliotheque Bleue’?
Answer: (b) Low price small books
24. What made Governor-General Warren Hastings persecute James Hickey who edited the Bengal
Gazette
Answer: (d) He published gossip about senior East India Company officials.
25. The main theme of the book ‘Chhote aur Bade Ka Sawal’ written by Kashibaba, a Kanpur mill worker,
was:
Answer: (b) The link between caste and class exploitation.
26. What were low priced small books printed on poor quality paper and bound in cheap blue covers
called in France?
Answer: (c) Bibliotheque Bleue
27. Which one of the following is the oldest Japanese book?
Answer: (b) Diamond Sutra
28. Which religious reformer was responsible for the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: (a) Martin Luther
29. The production of manuscripts became possible in Europe because :
Answer: (c) Chinese paper reached Europe in the 11th century via the silk route, like silk and spices
30. The reformation movement was launched against the corrupt practices of which of the following
group?
Answer: (c) Catholic Church
31. Which of the following books reflects the plight of the ‘lower castes’ and poor in India?
(a) Gulamagiri
(b) Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal
(c) Sachchi Kavitayen
(d) All the above|
Answer: (d) All the above
32. Why was the Vernacular Press Act passed by the British Government in India
Answer: (b) The Vernacular Act was passed by the British government to put some check on vernacular
newspapers which had become assertively nationalist.
33. Who among the following was not a women novelist?
Answer: (d) Maxim Gorky
34. Which of the following is an Enlightened thinker whose writings are said to have created conditions
for a revolution in France?
Answer: (b) Rousseau
35. Who was the first to use wood-block printing
Answer: (c) Spaniards
36. Name the country which remained the major producer of printed material for a long tim.
Answer: (a) The Imperial State of China
37. The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was modelled on:
Answer: (a) Irish Press Laws
38. What do you mean by the term ‘Calligraph’?
Answer: (c) The art of beautiful and stylised writing
39. The term ‘Compositor’ means :
Answer: (d) A person who composes the text for printing
40. “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one.” Who spoke these words?
Answer: (d) Martin Luther
41.The Chinese paper reached Europe through
answer: (a) Silk Route
42. Which one of the following statements is true?
Answer: (c) Lending libraries had been in existence from the seventeenth century
43. Who was known for an art form called ukiyo?
Answer: (b) Kitagawa Utamaro
44. What was the first book printed by Gutenberg?
Answer: (a) Bible
45. Which of the following was not a reason for the limited popularity of handwritten manuscripts in
Europe:
Answer: (c) The content of manuscripts was rebellious and seditious.
46. In which among the following countries was the earliest kind of print technology developed?
Answer: (d) China
47. Which is not an innovation of the 20th century?
Answer: (c) Important novels were serialised
48. What was Protestant Reformation?
Answer: (b) Movement to reform the Catholic Church
49. Which one among the following is an autobiography of Rashsundari Devi?
Answer: (a) Amar Jiban
50. Who among the following did not write about the caste system?
Answer: (b) Ram Chaddha
