Print Culture and the Modern World
Class 10
MCQ's
A) Multiple Choice Questions :
Select the Correct Answer from the given option.
1) The earliest kind of print technology was developed in _______, Japan and Korea, which was a system of hand printing.
a) India
b) Britain
c) China
d) Germany
Ans: (c)
2) Which of the following statements are true about printing?
a) Merchants used print in their everyday life as they collected trade information.
b) The imperial state in China was, for a very long time, the major producer of printed material.
c) Both (a) and (b).
d) None of the above.
Ans: (c)
3) As Western powers established their outposts in China, _______ became the hub of the new print culture.
a) Shanghai
b) Beijing
c) Guangzhou
d) Hong Kong
Ans: (a)
4) ________ from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD 768-770.
a) Buddhist Missionaries
b) Christian Missionaries
c) Scholars
d) Traders
Ans: (a)
5) The oldest _________ book, printed in AD 868, is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, containing six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations.
a) Chinese
b) Indian
c) Japanese
d) Korean
Ans: (c)
6) In the flourishing urban circles at Edo, illustrated collections of paintings depicted an elegant urban culture involving artists, courtesans, and teahouse gatherings. Edo was later known as ________.
a) Kyoto
b) Seoul
c) Beijing
d) Tokyo
Ans: (d)
7) China already had the technology of woodblock printing. Marco Polo brought this knowledge back with him to ________.
a) Italy
b) Germany
c) Great Britain
d) France
Ans: (a)
8) Vellum was a parchment made from the _____ of animals.
a) Bones
b) Skin
c) Legs
d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
9) Which of the following statements about Manuscripts are true?
a) It was easy to read from Manuscripts.
b) It was easy to carry around the Manuscripts.
c) Manuscripts were not fragile.
d) All of the above statements are false.
Ans: (d)
10) By the early fifteenth century, woodblocks were being widely used in Europe to _____.
a) To print textiles
b) Playing cards
c) Make religious pictures with simple, brief texts
d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
11) Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s in Strasbourg, located in ______.
a) Great Britain.
b) Germany
c) USA
d) France
Ans: (b)
12) ________ is a Metal frame in which types are laid and the text composed.
a) Compositor
b) Galley
c) Platen
d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
13) Which of the following were the result of the invention of the printing press?
a) The time and labour required to produce each book came down
b) Printing reduced the cost of books
c) None of the above
d) Both (a) and (b)
Ans: (d)
14) _____ are the places where people gathered to drink alcohol, be served food, meet friends and exchange news.
a) Ballad
b) Taverns
c) Galley
d) Compositor
Ans: (b)
15) In 1517, the religious reformer Martin Luther wrote ‘Ninety Five Theses’, criticising many of the practices and rituals of the _______.
a) Roman Catholic Church
b) Protestants
c) Orthodox Church
d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
16) Protestant Reformation was a sixteenth-century movement to reform the Catholic Church dominated by ______.
a) Paris
b) Rome
c) London
d) Marseilles
Ans: (b)
17) _______ was a former Roman Catholic court for identifying and punishing heretics.
a) Heretical
b) Seditious
c) Inquisition
d) Satiety
Ans: (c)
18) _______ were the beliefs which do not follow the accepted teachings of the Church.
a) Inquisition
b) Satiety
c) Seditious
d) Heretical
Ans: (d)
19) _______ began to maintain an Index of Prohibited Books from 1558.
a) Roman Church
b) Orthodox Church
c) Protestants
d) Monarchs
Ans: (a)
20) _______ a term used to describe pocket-sized books that are sold by travelling peddlers called chapmen, which became popular from the time of the sixteenth-century print revolution.
a) Chapbook
b) Almanac
c) Denominations
d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
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21)The earliest kind of print technology was developed in Japan, Korea and _____[CBSE Sept. 2012
(a) China
(b) Germany
(c) India
(d) France
Ans. (a)
22) The paper was invented by______
(a) India
(c) China
(b) England
(d) France
Ans. (c)
23) What is calligraphy ? [CBSE .Sept. 2010
(a) The art of beautiful and stylish writing
(b) A type of building
(c) A type of writing used during neolithic age
(d) A type of writing used in Egypt
Ans. (a)
24) Who among the follow wing brought printing technology into Japan
hand 768-770 AD?[CBS,CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012, 2020 (D)]
(a) Buddhist missionaries
(b) Japanese Traders
(c) European Traders
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
25) Which is the oldest printed book of Japan ?
(CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2020 Compt.]
(a) Bible
(b) Diamond Sutra
(d) JKL
(c) Mahabharata
Ans. (b)
26) Who developed the first printing press ?[CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]
(a) Johann Gutenberg
(b) Islamic Newton
(c) Marco Polo
(d) Newcomen
Ans. (a)
27) Which was the first book printed by Johann Gutenberg ?(CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) The Koran
(b) Diamond Sutra
(b) The Bible
(d) Ramcharitmanas
Ans. (b)
28) Who wrote 95 Theses ?
(a) Martin Luther
(b) Johann Gutenberg
(c) J.V. Schley
(d) Charles Dickens
Ans (a)
29) Who said, "Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one."
[CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) J.V. Schely
(c) Mahatrma Gandhi
(d) Martin Luther
Ans.(d)
30) Pocket size books that are sold by traveling pedlars.(CBSE Sept. 2010)
a) Chapbook
(b) Dictionary
(c) Cheapbook
(d) Almanac
Ans. (a)
31) Who were called 'Chapmen' ? [CBSE 2020 (D)
a) Book seller
b) Paper seller
c) Workers of printing press
d) Seller of penny chap books.
Ans. (d)
32) Which one among the following is ancient name of Tokyo ? (CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Osaka
(c) Edo
(b) Nagano
(d) Gifu
Ans. (c)
33) Which of the following is an Enlightenment thinker whose writings are said to have created conditions for a revolution in France ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Louise
(b) Rousseau
(c) Mennochio
(d) Gutenberg
Ans. (b)
34) By the mid 19th century had perfected the power driven cylindrical
press. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Johann Gutenberg (b) S. Richard
(c) Richard M.Hoen (d) Vivian Richard
Ans.(c)
35) Who authored 'Gitagovinda' ?
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jayadeva
(c) Munshi Premchand
(d) Chandu Menon
Ans. (b)
36). The Book, 'Chote Aur Bade Ka Sawal' wrote about : [CBSE Sept. 2010)
(a) the link between caste and class exploitation
(b) the injustices of the caste system
(c) restrictions on the vernacular press
(d) ill treatment of widows
Ans. (a)
37) Which of the following is the meaning of Riliotheque Bleue'?(2010. 2012]
A) An author
b) Low price books
C) Monuments
d) none of these
Ans (a)
38) wrote Amar Jiban' ?
(a) Rokeya Hossein
(b) Kailashbashini Debi
(c) Tarabai Shinde
(d) Rashsundari Debi
Ans. (d)
39) Who was the author of Gulamgiri' a book on caste injustices ?[CBSE 2010,2010]
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jyotiba Phule
(d) B.R. Ambedkar
Ans. (c)
40) Which one of the following was published by Raja Ram Mohan Roy? [CBSE 2020 (D)]
(a) Sambad Kaumudi (b) Shamsul Akbar
(c) Punjab Kesri (d) Chandrika
Ans. (a)
41) Who printed the first Tamil book?
(a) The Protestant
(b) The Catholic Priests
(c) Ulemas
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
42) Who among the following was associated with the newspaper Kesari ?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Subhas Chandra Bose
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) A.0. Hume
Ans. (c)