MCQs For NCERT Class 10 Social Science Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern World

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Print Culture and the Modern World Class 10 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Question. Ninety Five Theses criticising many of the practices or rituals of the Roman Catholic Church was written by:
(a) Martin Luther
(b) Mark Twain
(c) Mark Henry
(d) None of the above

Question. A Roman Catholic court for identifying and punishing heretics was called:
(a) Heretical
(b) Inquisition
(c) Seditious
(d) None of the above

Question. The major producer of printed material was:
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Korea
(d) India

Question. Buddhist Missionaries from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around:
(a) AD 769-779
(b) AD 768-770
(c) AD 777-870
(d) AD 758-760

Question. By the late eighteenth century the press came to made up of:
(a) Paper
(b) Stone
(c) Metal
(d) Wood

Question. The power-driven cylindrical press was capable of:
(a) Printing 6,000 sheets per hour
(b) Printing 7,000 sheets per hour
(c) Printing 8,000 sheets per hour
(d) Printing 9,000 sheets per hour

Question. Manuscripts were highly:
(а) Expensive and fragile
(b) Decorated and fragile
(c) Expensive
(d) None of the above

Question. The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the:
(а) Mid-fourteenth century
(b) Mid-sixteenth century
(c) Mid-seventeenth century
(d) Mid-eighteenth century

Question. Penny magazines were especially meant for:
(a) Children
(b) Adults
(c) Men
(d) Women

Question. Leading libraries in England became instruments for educating:
(a) White-collar workers and artisans
(b) Artisans and lower-middle class people
(c) While-collar workers
(d) White-collar workers artisans and lower-middle class people

Question. Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in ……………. at Cochin.
(a) 1549
(b) 1559
(c) 1569
(d) 1579

Question. The Deoband Seminary was founded in:
(a) 1857
(b) 1867
(c) 1877
(d) 1887

Question. Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal was written and published by:
(a) Kashi baba
(b) Kali baba
(c) Sohan baba
(d) Mohan baba

Question. The earliest kind of print technology was developed in:
(a) China, Japan and India
(b) China, Japan and Russia
(c) China, Japan and Korea
(d) None of the above.

Question. Pocket size books that were sold by travelling pedlars were called:
(а) Almanacs
(b) Story books
(c) Chap books
(d) None of the above

Fill in the Blanks

Question. Printers and ……………………… continuously developed new strategies to sell their products.

Question. ……………………… had a very rich and old tradition of hand-written manuscripts.

Question. In north India, the ……………………… were deeply anxious about the collapse of Muslim dynasties.

Question. The Deoband Seminary published thousands upon thousands of ……………………… telling Muslim readers how to conduct themselves in their everyday lives.

Question. The ……………………… press was capable of printing 8000 sheets per hour.

Question. From 1780, James Augustus Hickey began to edit the ……………………… .

Question. Printed tracts and ……………………… not only spread the new ideas, but they shaped the nature of the debate.

Question. Among ……………………… print encouraged the readings of religious texts, especially in the vernacular languages.

Write true (T) or false (F)

Question. Western printing techniques and mechanical presses were imported in the late eighteenth century.

Question. In 1295, Marco Polo returned to Italy after many years of exploration in Japan.

Question. Many people believed that books could change the world, liberate society from despotism and tyranny.

Question. Cartoons and caricatures typically suggested that the monarchy remained absorbed only in sensual pleasures.

Question. Penny magazines were especially meant for children, giving them knowledge about the environment.

Question. Shanghai became the hub of the new print culture, catering to the Western-style schools.

Question. The oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, was the Buddhist Diamond Sutra.

Question. Leading libraries have been in existence from the seventeenth century onwards.

Question. In 1517, Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses criticising many of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries literacy rates went up in most parts of Europe.

Question. In England, penny chap books were carried by petty pedlars known as chapmen.

Question. Many historians have argued that print culture created the conditions due to which the Russian Revolution occurred.

Question. By the 1780s there was an outpouring of literature that mocked the royalty and criticised their morality.

Question. Printed books at first did not resemble the written manuscripts in appearance and layout.

Question. Between 1450 and 1550, printing presses were set up in most countries of Europe.

Match the following

Column-A	Column-B
1. Calligraphy	(a) beliefs which did not follow the teachings of the church
2. Vellum	(b) the state of being fully satisfied
3. Taverns	(c) a speech, opposing the government
4. Protestant Reformation	(d) Legal scholars of Islam
5. Heretical	(e) a legal pronouncement on Islamic law
6. Satiety	(f) a movement to reform the Catholic Church
7. Seditious	(g) a place where people gathered to drink
8. Ulema	(h) a parchment made from the skin of a animals
9. Fatwa	(i) the art of beautiful and stylised writing