CBSE - Print Culture and the Modern World

1 Print Culture and the Modern World The contribution of Grimm Brothers of Germany to childrens literature was :
(a) Publishing stories for them
(b) Spending years on compiling traditional folktales gathered from peasants, editing and publishing them as a collection in 1812
(c) Having a new shape to rural folktales
(d) All the above

2 Print Culture and the Modern World Who among the following did not write about the caste system?
(a) E. V.. Ramaswamy Naicker
(b) Ram Chaddha
(c) B. R. Ambedkar
(d) Jyotiba Phule

3 Print Culture and the Modern World Printers and publishers developed new strategies to sell their products. Which of the following is not an innovation of the 20th century?
(a) Cheap paperback editions were printed
(b) The dust cover or the book jacket was an innovation
(c) Important novels were serialised, which led to a new way of writing novels
(d) Popular works were sold in England in cheap series called the shilling series

4 Print Culture and the Modern World Who among the following perfected the power drivers cylindrical press?
(1) James Watt
(2) Newcomen
(3) George Eliot
(4) Richard M Hoe

5 Print Culture and the Modern World The circulation of handwritten manuscripts remained limited because :
1) they were fragile and awkward to handle
2) they could not be carried around
3) they could not be read easily
4) all the above

6 Print Culture and the Modern World The uses of print diversified in urban China by the 17th century. Which of the following statements support the above statement?
(1) Print was no longer used by scholar-officials only
(2) Merchants used print in their everyday life and trade information
(3) Reading became a leisure activity
(4) All the above

7 Print Culture and the Modern World Who among the following brought the technology of wood block printing to Europe?
(1) Johann Gutenberg
(2) Marco Polo
(3) Richard M Hoe
(4) None of the above

8 Print Culture and the Modern World Which statement given below is not an explanation of the art form called Ukiyo?
(1) Ukiyo means pictures of the floating world or depiction
(2) Artists first draw the themes on paper, then a skilled wood-carver pastes the drawing on a wooden block
(3) He then carves a printing block to reproduce the painters lines
(4) The original drawing is then preserved in the libraries

9 Print Culture and the Modern World  Print culture, according to many historians, made people critical and rational because :
(a) Enlightened thinkers argued for the rule of reason rather than custom, judging everything with reasons
(b) The thinkers attacked sacred authority of the Church and despotism of the State
(c) People who read the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau saw the world through different eyes
(d) All of these

10 Print Culture and the Modern World The first to use wood-block printing in Europe were :
(1) The French
(2) The Spaniards
(3) The Italians
(4) The Germans