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
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 4 Solution : -. |
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
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World Who wrote about the injustices of the caste system in Gulamgiri?
(a)
Raja Rammohan Roy
(b) Jyotiba Phule
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Bankim
Chandra
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World Who
developed the first printing press in the 1430s?
(a) Marcopolo
(b) Johann
Gutenberg
(c) James Watt
(d) None of the above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World Which of the following is an Enlightened thinker whose
writings are said to have created conditions for a revolution in France?
(a)
Louise Sebastian Mercier
(b) Rousseau
(c) Mennochio
(d) Gutenberg
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World The term Compositor means :
(a) A person
who composes poems
(b) A person who composes lyrics and songs for a play
(c) A
person who composes music
(d) A person who composes the text for printing
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 4 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World The book, Chote Aur Bade Ka Sawal talked about
(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
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World Who among the following agreed to revise Press Laws?
(1) Lord
Cornwallis
(2) Lord Dalhousie
(3) Governor General Bentinck
(4) None of the
above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World Taverns were :
(a) Restaurants, where
people could eat, drink and be merry
(b) Cheap hotels in towns
(c) Places where
people gathered to drink alcohol, to be served food, to meet friends and
exchange views
(d) Small buildings in a village for a public meeting
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Print Culture and the Modern World The production of manuscripts became possible in Europe because :
(1) The
Europeans discovered paper
(2) Just like silk and spices, paper reached Europe
via the Arab world
(3) Chinese paper reached Europe in the 11th century via the
silk route, like silk and spices
(4) All the above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
