Q 1 – Who was known for an art form called ukiyo?
(a) Chinz ho
(b) Kitagawa Utamaro
(c) Gutenberg
(d) None of these
(b) Kitagawa Utamaro
Q 2 – What was the ancient name of Tokyo?
(a) Edo
(b) Osaka
(c) Gifu
(d) None of these
(a) Edo
Q 3 – When and by whom was hand printing technology brought to Japan?
(a) The Arab travelers to Japan in the 8th century
(b) Buddhist missionaries from China around AD 768-770
(c) Chinese silk merchants in the 6th century
(d) The Egyptians in the 8th century
(b) Buddhist missionaries from China around AD 768-770
Q 4 – Calligraphy is the art of:
(a) beautiful writing
(b) painting
(c) telling stories
(d) stories for children.
(a) beautiful writing
Q 5 – The earliest kind of print technology was developed in :
(a) Japan and Korea
(b) India, Japan, and Korea
(c) China, Japan, and Korea
(d) India, China, and Arabia
(c) China, Japan and Korea
Q 6 – The Protestant movement was started by:
(a) Erasmus
(b) Martin Luther
(c) Gutenherg
(d) Lousie Sebastein Merceir.
(b) Martin Luther
Q 7 – What was the ‘Bengal Gazette’?
(a) First English magazine
(b) English Hindi mixed magazine
(c) A weekly Hindi magazine
(d) A weekly English magazine
(d) A weekly English magazine
Q 8 – When and how did the Chinese start hand printing?
(a) From the 6th century onwards, the Chinese printed by rubbing paper
(b) From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper against the inked surface of wooden blocks
(c) From the 6th century onwards, by printing on this porous sheet
(d) All the above
(b) From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper against the inked surface of wooden blocks
Q 9 – Which is not an innovation of the 20th century?
(a) Cheap paperback editions
(b) The dust cover
(c) Important novels were serialized
(d) None of these
(c) Important novels were serialized
Q 10 – Marco Polo was a traveler from:
(a) England
(b) France
(c) Italy
(d) Austria.
(c) Italy
Q 11 – The term ‘Calligraph’ means :
(a) The art of beautiful printing
(b) The art of beautiful and stylized writing
(c) The art of beautiful hand printing
(d) The art of printing an ‘accordion book’
(b) The art of beautiful and stylized writing
Q 12 – Diamond Sutra, the oldest were printed book is in language.
(a) Chinese
(b) Korean
(c) Indian
(d) Japanese.
(d) Japanese.
Q 13 – What was Protestant Reformation?
(a) A challenge to the authority of Rome
(b) Movement to reform the Catholic Church
(c) A new religion
(d) None of these
(b) Movement to reform the Catholic Church
Q 14 – Which statement given below is not an explanation of the art form called ‘Ukiyoe?
(a) ‘Ukiyo’ means pictures of the floating world or depiction
(b) Artists first draw the themes on paper, then a skilled wood-carver pastes the drawing on a wooden block
(c) He then carves a printing block to reproduce the painter’s lines
(d) The original drawing is then preserved in the libraries
(d) The original drawing is then preserved in the libraries
Q 15 – Gutenberg was the first to print the
(a) Dictionary
(b) Ballads
(c) Bible
(d) novel
(c) Bible
Q 16 – When were the Paperback editions of books were introduced?
(a) The onset of the Great Depression
(b) The First World War
(c) The Second World War
(d) None of these
(a) The onset of the Great Depression
Q 17 – Who was Kitagawa Utamaro and why is he famous?
(a) A famous Japanese artist, famous for his prints
(b) A Japanese artist, famous for his art form ‘Ukiyoe
(c) A Japanese artist who influenced European artists like Manet, Monet, and Van Gogh
(d) A Japanese artist born in Edo in 1753, famous for his contribution to an art form called ‘Ukiyo’ which influenced European artists like Manet, Monet and Van Gogh
(d) A Japanese artist born in Edo in 1753, famous for his contribution to an art form called ‘Ukiyo’ which influenced European artists like Manet, Monet and Van Gogh
Q 18 – 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
(b) Rousseau
Q 19 – Penny Chapbooks were:
(a) Journals
(b) novels
(c) pocket-sized books
(d) ritual calendars.
(c) pocket-sized books
Q 20 The first to use woodblock printing in Europe were :
(a) The French
(b) The Spaniards
(c) The Italians
(d) The Germans
(b) The Spaniards
Q 21 – Folk tales were collected from peasants in Germany and completed in the form of books by:
(a) Thomas Paine
(b) Erasmus
(c) Jean Jacques Rousseau
(d) Grimm Brothers.
(d) Grimm Brothers.
Q 22 – The production of manuscripts became possible in Europe because :
(a) The Europeans discovered paper
(b) Just like silk and spices, the paper reached Europe via the Arab world
(c) Chinese paper reached Europe in the 11th century via the silk route, like silk and spices
(d) All the above
(c) Chinese paper reached Europe in the 11th century via the silk route, like silk and spices
Q 23 – 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
(d) A person who composes the text for printing
Q 24 – Which of the following was the first book printed by Gutenberg?
(a) The Diamond Sutra
(b) Chapbook
(c) Grimms’ fairytales
(d) The Bible
(d) The Bible
Q 25 – What were low-priced small books printed on poor quality paper and bound in cheap blue covers called in France?
(a) Chapbooks
(b) Almanacs
(c) Bibliotheque Bleue
(d) Ballads
(c) Bibliotheque Bleue
Q 26 – The Print Revolution transformed the lives of people by :
(a) Changing their relationship to information and knowledge; with institutions and authorities
(b) By producing cheaper books and producing them at a fast rate
(c) Influencing popular perceptions and opening new ways of looking at things
(d) Both (b) and (c)
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q 27 – Who among the following invented the first printing press in Europe?
(a) Macro Polo
(b) Kitagawa Utamaro
(c) Johann Gutenberg
(d) Erasmus
(c) Johann Gutenberg
Q 28 – Sambad Kaumudi, a popular journal was published by :
(a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(b) Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
(c) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
(d) Raja Rammohan Roy.
(d) Raja Rammohan Roy.
Q 29 – 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
(d) A person who composes the text for printing
Q 30 – 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.
(c) Portuguese missionaries
Q 31 – Gulamgiri was written by
(a) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(b) Jyotiba Phule
(c) E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
(d) Kandukuri Veresalingam.
(b) Jyotiba Phule
Q 32 – Who was Kitagawa Utamaro?
(a) A Japanese artist
(b) An Indian artist
(c) An Korean artist
(d) None of these
(a) A Japanese artist
Q 33 – 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
(c) Places where people gathered to drink alcohol, to be served food, to meet friends, and exchange views
Q 34 – The first printing press in India was brought by the :
(a) Portuguese missionaries
(b) French missionaries
(c) Dutch missionaries
(d) English missionaries.
(a) Portuguese missionaries
Q 35 – Which problem has been raised in Gulamgiri?
(a) The injustices of the caste system
(b) Excessive drinking among the poor
(c) The miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women
(d) Widow immolation
(a) The injustices of the caste system
Q 36 – Print culture, according to many historians, made people critical and rational because :
(a) Enlightened thinkers argued for the rule of reason rather than custom, judging everything with reasons
(b) The thinkers attacked the sacred authority of the Church and despotism of the State
(c) People who read the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau saw the world through different eyes
(d) All of the above
(d) All of the above
Q 37 – The Bengal Gazette was edited by
(a) Gangadhar Bhattacharya
(b) Raja Rammohun Roy
(c) James Augustus Hickey
(d) Richard M. Hoe
(c) James Augustus Hickey
Q 38 – The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and
(a) Korea
(b) France
(c) India
(d) England
(a) Korea
Q 39 – There was a virtual reading mania in European countries at the end of the 18th century because :
(a) People wanted to read books and printers produced them in increasing numbers
(b) Churches set up schools in villages carrying literacy to peasants and artisans
(c) Literacy rates went up in Europe as 60 to 80 percent
(d) There was a variety in reading material, so reading became popular
(b) Churches set up schools in villages carrying literacy to peasants and artisans
Q 40 – The first autobiography, ‘Amar Jiban’ in 1876 in Bengali language was written by
(a) Bibi Fatima
(b) Pandita Ramubai
(c) Kumardevi
(d) Rashsundari Debi
(a) Bibi Fatima
Q 41 – Which of the following statements does not support the view of some historians that Print Culture was the basis for the French
Revolution?
(a) Print culture led to the spread of ideas of enlightened thinkers and encouraged questioning, critical reasoning, and rule of reason
rather than tradition
(b) It led to a public culture of debate, discussion, new ideas of social revolution
(c) Print did not directly shape the people’s minds but opened up the possibility of thinking differently
(d) It aroused hostility against the monarchy, its mentality and mocked it
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(c) Print did not directly shape the people’s minds but opened up the possibility of thinking differently
Q 42 – Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one.”?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Louise-Sebastien Mercier
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Martin Luther
(d) Martin Luther
Q 43 – The first printed edition of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, came out from Calcutta in the year
(a) 1810
(b) 1813
(c) 1816
(d) 1817
(c) 1816
Q 44 – Diamond Sultra is the oldest printed book of
(a) Korea
(b) India
(c) Japan
(d) China
(c) Japan
Q 45 – Martin Luther was a/an
(a) social reformer
(b) religious reformer
(c) environmentalist
(d) educationist
(b) religious reformer
Q 46 – Children became an important category of readers in the 19th century, mainly because :
(a) Primary education became compulsory and the production of school textbooks became essential for the publishing industry
(b) A children’s press devoted to literature for children was set up in France in 1857
(c) Grimm Brothers in Germany published fairytales for children in 1812
(d) Anything vulgar was not published in children’s books
(a) Primary education became compulsory and the production of school textbooks became essential for the publishing industry
Q 47 – Penny magazines were specially meant for
(a) children
(b) factory workers
(c) women
(d) elite class
(c) women
Q 48 – The role of lending libraries in England in the 19th century was :
(a) Promoting reading among the working-class people
(b) Educating white-collar workers, artisans, and lower-middle-class people
(c) Encouraging self-improvement, self-expression and encouraging the working class to write autobiographies
(d) Both (b) and (c)
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q 49 – The oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, is the Buddhist
(a) Bronze Sutra
(b) Diamond Sutra
(c) Gold Sutra
(d) Silver Sutra
(a) Bronze Sutra
Q 50 – What made Governor-General Warren Hastings persecute James Hickey who edited the Bengal Gazette?
(a) He published articles supporting Indian nationalist leaders.
(b) He published advertisements related to the import and sale of slaves.
(c) He published anti-religious articles.
(d) He published gossip about senior East India Company officials.
(d) He published gossip about senior East India Company officials.
Q 51 – Printers and publishers developed new strategies to sell their products. Which of the following is not an innovation of the 20th
century?
(a) Cheap paperback editions were printed
(b) The dust cover or the book jacket was an innovation
(c) Important novels were serialized, which led to a new way of writing novels
(d) Popular works were sold in England in cheap series called the shilling series
(c) Important novels were serialized, which led to a new way of writing novels
Q 52. Why was the Vernacular Press Act passed by the British Government in India?
(a) The Vernacular Act was passed to promote vernacular languages.
(b) The Vernacular Act was passed by the British government to put some check on vernacular newspapers which had become assertively nationalist.
(c) The Vernacular Act was passed to please the Indians who wanted to promote Indian languages.
(d) The Vernacular Act was passed to consolidate British rule in India.
(b) The Vernacular Act was passed by the British government to put some check on vernacular newspapers which had become assertively nationalist.
Q 53. What do you mean by the term ‘Galley’?
(a) A metal frame in which types are laid and the text composed
(b) A corridor
(c) A scarecrow
(d) None of these
(a) A metal frame in which types are laid and the text composed
Q 54. In which year, printing in Hindi began, and what was its main concern?
(a) Hindi printing began in the 1870s, a large segment was devoted to women’s education, widow remarriage, and the national
movement
(b) Hindi printing began in the 1870s and their main concern was women-related issues
(c) Hindi printing began in 1900 and was devoted to the education of women
(d) Printing in Hindi began in the early 20th century and its main concern was a religious reform
(a) Hindi printing began in the 1870s, and a large segment was devoted to women’s education, widow remarriage, and the national movement
Q 55. The term, ‘Vellum’ refers to the
(a) paper made from wood
(b) parchment made from the skin of animals
(c) parchment made of leaves
(d) wood-pulp material
(d) wood-pulp material
Q 56. Criticizing many of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church, in 1517 the religious reformer Martin
Luther wrote
(a) Sixty Five Theses
(b) Seventy Five Theses
(c) Eighty Five Theses
(d) Ninety Five Theses
(d) Ninety-Five Theses
Q 57. 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) the link between caste and class exploitation
Q 58. Who was the first to use woodblock printing?
(a) Indian
(b) French
(c) Spaniards
(d) None of these
(c) Spaniards
Q 59. “The Gita Govinda” was written by Jayadeva in the
(a) Sixteenth century.
(b) Seventeenth century.
(c) Eighteenth century.
(d) Nineteenth century
(b) Seventeenth century.
Q 60. 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
(b) Jyotiba Phule