AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, SAKET
CLASS X
HISTORY- PRINT CULTURE AND THE MODERN WORLD
WORKSHEET
What is calligraphy?
(a) Stylised writing
(b) Poetry
(c) Textbooks
(d) Flower arrangement
When was leading libraries came into existence?
(a) Fifteenth century
(b) Seventeenth century
(c) Sixteenth century
(d) None of above
Which book of Jyotiba Phule was based on the caste system?
(a) Amar Jiban
(b) Istri Dharam Vichar
(c) Sacchi Kavitayen
(d) Gulamgiri
Who began to publish the weekly Bengal Gazette?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Gangadhar Bhattacharya
(c) Raja Rammohun Roy
(d) Madan Mohan Malviya
What did Menocchio, the miller, do?
(a) Commissioned artists
(b) Enraged the Roman Catholic Church
(c) Wrote the Adages
(d) None of these
Which scholar expressed a deep anxiety about printing?
(a) Martin Luther
(b) Erasmus
(c) Johann Gutenberg
(d) None of these
Who was James Lackington?
(a) Publisher
(b) Painter
(c) Scholar
(d) Reformer
Who was Martin Luther?
(a) Painter
(b) Poet
(c) Religious reformer
(d) All of these
Which of the following cities became the hub of the Western style-school culture printing?
(a) Berlin
(b) Shanghai
(c) Paris
(d) Britain
Which one of the following, created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a new world of
debate and discussion?
(a) Print
(b) Oral
(c) Text
(d) Ballad
In which of the following years, Buddhist missionaries from China introduced hand-printing technology?
(a) 758-760 AD
(b) 772-774 AD
(c) 768-770 AD
(d) 776-778 AD
Printing was first developed in:
(a) Japan
(b) Portugal
(c) China
(d) Germany
Which one of the following began to edit the ‘Bengal Gazette’ a weeklya magazine?
(a) James Augustus Hickey
(b) George Eliot
(c) Jane Austen
(d) William Bolts
Which of the following countries possessed a huge bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through Civil
Service Examination?
(a) China
(b) Korea
(c) Japan
(d) Britain
Who among the following religious reformers wrote Ninty Five These criticising many of the religious practices
and rituals of the Roman Catholic church?
(a) Confucious
(b) Kitagawa Utamaro
(c) Martin Luther
(d) Hi-sang
At which of the following places, the Grimm Brothers spent years compiling traditional folk tales gathered from
peasants?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) Germany
(d) Spain
Which of the following is/are some of the best-known women novelist during 19th century?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) George Eliot
(c) Bronte Sisters
(d) All of these
Which class of people normally live i the world of oral culture attain knowledge?
(a) Elite class
(b) Common people
(c) Working class
(d) Peasantry class
In which of the two languages, 50 books were published in 1674?
(a) Konkani and Kanada
(b) Malayalam and Manipuri
(c) Telugu and Tamil
(d) Oriya and Bhojpuri
Which of the following countries had the earliest kind of print technology?
(a) China
(b) Korea
(c) Japan
(d) All of these
Who wrote My Childhood and My University?
(a) Thomas Wood
(b) Maxim Gorky
(c) George Eliot
(d) Jane Austen
What was Gutenberg’s first printed book?
(a) Ballads
(b) Dictionary
(c) Bible
(d) None of these
Which of the following classes emerged as a new reading class?
(a) Elite class
(b) Working class
(c) Common people
(d) Peasantry class
At which of the following places, a children’s press was set up in 1857?
(a) England
(b) Spain
(c) France
(d) China
At which place, Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579?
(a) Cuttack
(b) Cochin
(c) Calcutta
(d) Madras
In which of the following countries, the rates of literacy was very low till the 20th century?
(a) European contries
(b) Asian countries
(c) American contries
(d) Australian contries
Which of the following authors from New York had perfected the power-driven cylindrical press?
(a) Richard M. Hoe
(b) George Eliot
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Martin Luthar
Which of the following books is the oldest Japanese book, printed in 868 AD containing six sheets of text and
woodcut illustrations?
(a) Diamond Sutra
(b) Harshcharita
(c) Brihatsutra
(d) Mrichkatika
What were Penny Chapbooks?
(a) Ritual calendars
(b) Journals
(c) Newspapers
(d) Pocket-sized books
Who introduced the printing press in India?
(a) French
(b) Italian
(c) Portuguese
(d) None of these
At which of the following places in India, first printing press was established?
(a) Bombay
(b) Mardras
(c) Calcutta
(d) Goa
FILL IN THE BLANK :
Question. .......... created the way of new writings.
Question. In ancient India, .......... were copied on palm leaves or on handmade paper.
Question. The Printing Press first came to .......... , in India with a rise in the mid 16 century.
Question. The .......... Act was modelled on the Irish Press Laws.
Question. .......... Hindus believed that a literate girl would be widowed if she gets educated.
TRUE/FALSE :
Question. With the setting up of an increasing number of printing presses, visual images could be easily
reproduced in multiple copies.
Question. The first printed book by mechanical press was Bible.
Question. In 1870s, carticatures and cartoons were being published in journals and newspapers
Question. Gutenberg brought printing to Europe.
Question. In Punjab-Battala area was devoted to the printing of popular books.
ASSERTION AND REASON :
DIRECTION : Mark the option which is most suitable :
(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.
Question.
Assertion : The production of handwritten manuscripts could not satisfy the ever-increasing demand for books.
Reason : Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk route.
Question.
Assertion : As literacy and schools spread in African countries, there was a virtual reading mania.
Reason : Churches of different denominations set up schools in villages, carrying literacy to tribals.
Question.
Assertion : In 1517, the religious reformer Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses criticising many of the practices
and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.
Reason :,T his led to a division within the Church and to the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
Question.
Assertion : There was intense controversy between social and religious reformers and the Hindu orthodoxy over
matters like-widow immolation, monotheism, Brahmanical priesthood and idolatory.
Reason : The Deoband Seminary founded in 1867, published thousands upon thousands off at was telling Muslim
readers how to conduct themselves in everyday lives, and explaining the meaning of Islamic doctrines.
Question.
Assertion : The first book that Gutenberg printed was the Bible.
Reason : About 500 copies were printed and it took two years to produce them.
Question.
Assertion : The new reading culture was accompanied by a new technology.
Reason : From hand printing there was a gradual shift to mechanical printing.
Question.
Assertion : Children became an important category of readers.
Reason : Primary education became compulsory from the late nineteenth century.
Question.
Assertion : Print and popular religious literature stimulated many distinctive individual interpretations of faith
even among little-educated working people.
Reason : Through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literacy rates went up in most parts of Europe,
Very Short Type Questions
Which place had the breakthrough of first printing press?
Mention any one technique of preserving the manuscript of India.
Name the Chinese traditional book, which was folded and stitched at the side.
Name the first edition of the Indian religious text published in vernacular.
What was the meaning of the art form Ukiyo?
Give the ancient name of Tokyo.
Who brought the printing press first to Goa?
Name the country where civil services examination was conducted by the imperial state.
