Chapter 5 Print Culture And The Modern

World
Test 2

1. ‘The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and public
opinion is the force that will sweep despotism away.’ Who said these words?
(a) Manocchio
(b) Louise Sebastien Mercier
(c) Martin Luther
(d) Erasmus

Answer: b

2. How did print culture help poor people in India?

(a) Huge number of books which had flooded the markets led to the opening
of hundreds of bookshops, where poor people got employed.
(b) Public libraries were set up, where jobs were offered to poor people.
(c) Cheap books were brought out which the poor people could afford to buy
and read.
(d) Selling books with a small investment became a business for poor people.

Answer: c

3. Why was the Vernacular Press Act passed by the British Government in
India?
(a) The Vernacular Act was passed to promote vernacular languages.
(b) The Vernacular Act was passed by the British government to put some
check on vernacular newspapers which had become assertively nationalist.
(c) The Vernacular Act was passed to please the Indians who wanted to
promote Indian languages.
(d) The Vernacular Act was passed to consolidate British rule in India.

Answer: b

4. What made Governor-General Warren Hastings persecute James Hickey

who edited the Bengal Gazette?
(a) He published articles supporting Indian nationalist leaders.
(b) He published advertisements related to import and sale of slaves.
(c) He published anti-religious articles.
(d) He published gossip about senior East India Company officials.

Answer: d

5. The main theme of the book ‘Chhote aur Bade Ka Sawal’ written by
Kashibaba, a Kanpur mill worker, was:
(a) The life of the elite upper castes.
(b) The link between caste and class exploitation.
(c) Restrictions on the Vernacular Press.
(d) Injustices of the caste system.

Answer: b
6. Amar Jiban was the autobiography written by Rashsundari Debi.
(True/False)

Answer:
Explanation: True

7. Vellum is the parchment made of animal skin. (True/False)

Answer:
Explanation: True

8. Monnocchio said “The printing press is the most powerful engine of

progress”. (True/False)

Answer:
Explanation: False

9. American explorer Marco Polo brought back the knowledge of printing to

Italy. (True/False)

Answer:
Explanation: False

10. ‘ Bengal Gazette ’ the weekly magazine was brought out byGangadhar
Bhattacharya. (True/F alse)
Answer:
Explanation: True

11. Match the columns.

Column A Column B

(a) Chapbook (i) Earlier name of Tokyo

(b) Gutenburg (ii) First printed book published in Europe

(c) Manuscript (iii) Pocket size cheap book

(d) Edo (iv) Handwritten original text

(e) Bible (v) Printing Press

Answer:
(a) (iii)
(b) (v)
(c) (iv)
(d) (i)
(e) (ii)

12: - What is calligraphy?

(a) Poetry
(b) Textbooks
(c) Flowers arrangement
(d) Stylized

Answer: d

 
13: - What was Gutenberg’s first printed book?
(a) Ballads
(b) Dictionary
(c) Bible
(d) None of these

Answer: c

 
14: -What were ‘Penny Chapbooks’?
(a) Pocket – sized books
(b) Journals
(c) Ritual Calendars
(d) Newspaper
 
Answer: a

15: - Who introduced the printing press in India-

(a) French
(b) Italian
(c) Portuguese
(d) None of these
 
Answer: c

16: - Who wrote ‘My childhood My university’.

(a) Thomas wood
(b) Maxim Gorky
(c) George Eliot
(d) Jane Austen
 
Answer: b

17: - When was the Vernacular press act passed?

(a) 1878
(b) 1887
(c)1867
(d) 1898
 
Answer: a

18: - Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of god and the greatest one.”
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) J. V. Schley
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Martin Luther
 
Answer: d

19: - Which is the oldest printed book of Japan

(a) Bible
(b) Diamond Sutra
(c) Mahabharta
(d) Ukiyo
 
Answer: b

20: - Who wrote 95 theses?

(a) Martin Luther
(b) Johann Gutenberg
(c) J. V. Schley
(d) Charles Dickens
 
Answer: a