Print Culture and the Modern World Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

By the standards of his time, was Gutenberg's printing process fast and cheap, or slow and expensive?

Question 2

What kind of writing did children's presses begin dedicating themselves to, in the 19th century?

Question 3

By the 17th century, what kind of urban culture bloomed in China, creating demand for printed entertainment?

Question 4

How did Warren Hastings respond to Hickey's newspaper?

Question 5

Which groups of readers did lending libraries especially help educate, besides women?

Question 6

What kind of newspapers did the government encourage, to counter damaging information about colonial rule?

Question 7

Whose Kesari newspaper published sympathetic articles about deported Punjab revolutionaries in 1907?

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About Print Culture and the Modern World

This quiz covers Chapter 5 of CBSE Class 10 History (India and the Contemporary World II), Print Culture and the Modern World.

It opens with the earliest printed books in China and Japan, the arrival of print technology in Europe, and Johann Gutenberg's printing press.

It then covers the print revolution's impact -- a new reading public, the mixing of oral and print culture, the church's fear of print, and the reading mania of the 17th and 18th centuries, including its link to the French Revolution.

It moves on to children, women, and workers as new kinds of readers and writers, and further innovations in printing technology, including Penguin Books and cheap paperback editions.

It covers the long tradition of handwritten manuscripts in India, the arrival of print with Portuguese missionaries in Goa, James Augustus Hickey's Bengal Gazette, and the religious and social reform debates that print made possible.

It closes with how print gave a voice to India's poor and lower castes, including Jyotiba Phule and Kashibaba, and how the colonial government tried to censor and control the press, including the Vernacular Press Act and the case of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Every question comes with a clear, simple explanation, so incorrect answers become as instructive as correct ones, whether you are revising for a school test or a board exam.