CBSE - Print Culture and the Modern World

1 Print Culture and the Modern World Which one of the following statements is true?
(1) A children press, devoted to literature for children alone, was set up in France in 1757
(2) Penny magazines were especially meant for men
(3) Lending libraries had been in existence from the seventeenth century
(4) None of the above

2 Print Culture and the Modern World The printing press was first introduced in India by which one of the following?
(a) East India Company officials
(b) Indian reformers
(c) Portuguese missionaries
(d) Arabic traders

3 Print Culture and the Modern World Lending libraries came into existence in the :
(1) 17th Century
(2) 18th Century
(3) 19th Century
(4) 20th Century

4 Print Culture and the Modern World Which one among the following is an autobiography of Rashsundari Devi?
(1) Amar Jiban
(2) Amar Jyoti
(3) Amar Jawan
(4) Amar Zindagi

5 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

6 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

7 Print Culture and the Modern World Who among the following was not a women novelist?
(1) Jane Austen
(2) Bronte Sisters
(3) George Eliot
(4) None of the above

8 Print Culture and the Modern World Protestant Reformation was :
(a) A 16th century movement to reform the Catholic Church dominated by Rome
(b) A challenge to the authority of Rome
(c) A new religion started by Martin Luther
(d) A movement which started anti-Catholic Christianity

9 Print Culture and the Modern World The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was modelled on :
(1) Irish Press Laws
(2) American Press Laws
(3) Chinese Press Laws
(4) German Press Laws

10 Print Culture and the Modern World  What were low priced small books printed on poor quality paper and bound in cheap blue covers called in France?
(1) Chapbooks
(2) Almanacs
(3) Bibliotheque Bleue
(4) Ballads