Print Culture Mcq

Class -X

Sub - History MCQ. Chap --7 (Print Culture and the Modern World)

1.What is Calligraphy?

(a)Poetry. (b)Textbooks
(c)Flowers arrangement. (d)art of stylised writing

2.Which is the oldest printed book of Japan?

(a)Bible. (b)Diamond Sutra
(c)Mahabharata. (d)Ukiyo

3.What was the ancient name of Tokyo?

(a)Edo. (b)Osaka
(c)Gifu. (d)None of these

4.Who was known for an art form called ukiyo?

(a)Chinz ho. (b)Kitagawa Utamaro
(c)Gutenberg. (d)None of these

5.The Chinese paper reached Europe through

(a) Silk Route. (b) Sea route
(c) Buddhist Missionaries. (d) Merchants

6.Which of the following travellers brought back the art of wood block printing to Italy?

(a)Columbus (b)Marco Polo
(c) Magellon. (d) Dominigos

7. Who invented the first known printing press and where?

(a) Henry Ford, USA. (b) Leo Tolstoy, Russia
(c)Henry Stanley, America. (d) Johann Gutenberg, Germany

8.What was Gutenberg’s first printed book?

(a)The Merchant Of Venice (b)Dictionary
(c)Bible. (d)None of these

9.Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of god and the greatest one.”

(a)Charles Dickens. (b)J. V. Schely
(c)Mahatma Gandhi. (d)Martin Luther

10.Protestant Reformation movement is related to the religion

(a)Buddhism. (b)Hinduism
(c)Christianity. (d)Jainism

11.An annual publication giving astronomical data was known as

(a)Chapbook. (b)Penny book
(c)Almanac. (d)Journal

12. What were ‘Penny Chapbooks’?

(a)Pocket – sized books. (b)Journals
(c)Ritual Calendars. (d)Newspaper

13.Who authored ‘Gitagovinda’?

(a)Jayadeva. (b)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c)J. A. Hickey. (d)Chandu Menon

14.Printing Press first came to India with—

(a)The Dutch. (b)Portuguese Missionaries
(c)The French. (d)The English

15.The first Indian to publish a newspaper was

(a)Ram Mohan Roy. (b)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c)Gangadhar Bhattacharya (d)Ranade

16.Who published Sambad Kaumudi ?

(a)Ishvar Chandra Vidyasagar (b)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c)Radhakant Dev. (d)Bal Gangadhar Tilak

17. The book Amar Jiban is :

(a) A Religious Book. (b) A Novel
(c) An Autobiography. (d)A biography

18.The Book Gulamgiri dealt with—

(a)Restriction on vernacular press. (b)Mistreatment of widows
(c)Injustices of caste system. (d)None of these

19.A liberal colonial officer who formulated new rules to restore the freedom of the press in India was

(a)Warren Hastings (b)William Bentinck
(c)Thomas Macaulay (d)None of the above

20.When was the Vernacular press act passed?

(a)1878 (b)1887
(c)1867. (d)1898 .

Answers :-

1. D 2. B 3. A 4. B 5 . A
6. B 7. D 8. C 9. D 10. C
11. C 12. A 13. A 14. B 15 . C
16. B 17. C 18. C 19. C 20. A