Print Culture and the Modern World: Class 10 Important Questions with Answers

15 MCQs

1. The oldest Japanese book is the
   (a) Bible (b) Diamond Sutra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gulamgiri
2. Woodblock printing came to Italy with
   (a) Gutenberg (b) Marco Polo (c) Luther (d) Erasmus
3. Gutenberg printed about ___ copies of the Bible.
   (a) 50 (b) 180 (c) 5,000 (d) 20 million
4. The Index of Prohibited Books was kept from
   (a) 1517 (b) 1558 (c) 1789 (d) 1878
5. Low-priced books in France were called
   (a) chapbooks (b) Bibliothèque Bleue (c) almanacs (d) penny magazines
6. Richard M. Hoe perfected the
   (a) offset press (b) power-driven cylindrical press (c) woodblock (d) platen
7. The first printing press in India came to
   (a) Calcutta (b) Goa (c) Bombay (d) Madras
8. Sambad Kaumudi was published by
   (a) Tilak (b) Rammohun Roy (c) Gangadhar Bhattacharya (d) Hickey
9. Gulamgiri (1871) was written by
   (a) Ambedkar (b) Periyar (c) Jyotiba Phule (d) Kashibaba
10. The Vernacular Press Act was passed in
    (a) 1857 (b) 1878 (c) 1907 (d) 1919
11. Amar Jiban was written by
    (a) Pandita Ramabai (b) Tarabai Shinde (c) Rashsundari Debi (d) Kailashbashini Debi
12. "Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one" — said by
    (a) Erasmus (b) Martin Luther (c) Mercier (d) Voltaire
13. The Deoband Seminary was founded in
    (a) 1810 (b) 1867 (c) 1822 (d) 1876
14. Ukiyo pictures were associated with
    (a) Raja Ravi Varma (b) Kitagawa Utamaro (c) Grimm Brothers (d) Hickey
15. Tilak was imprisoned in 1908 for writing in
    (a) Bombay Samachar (b) Kesari (c) Bengal Gazette (d) Samachar Chandrika

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Assertion–Reason (6)

(a) Both true, R explains A. (b) Both true, R does not explain A. (c) A true, R false. (d) A false, R true.

1. A: The Roman Catholic Church kept an Index of Prohibited Books. R: Print spread dissenting ideas that challenged the Church.
2. A: Early printed books of Gutenberg were all identical. R: The borders were painted by hand.
3. A: The Vernacular Press Act (1878) was modelled on the Irish Press Laws. R: It gave the government power to censor vernacular newspapers.
4. A: Manuscripts were widely used in everyday life in pre-colonial India. R: Manuscripts were expensive and fragile.
5. A: Hickey was persecuted by Warren Hastings. R: Hickey published gossip about senior Company officials.
6. A: Print helped the Protestant Reformation. R: Luther's New Testament sold 5,000 copies in a few weeks.

Key: 1 (a) · 2 (d) · 3 (b) · 4 (d) · 5 (a) · 6 (a)