Class 10 - History

Print culture and the modern world Online MCQs Test

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Set 16

1. What innovation in the 1920s in England involved popular works sold in cheap series?

Serialisation
Shilling Series
Dust cover
Paperback editions

2. What did publishers introduce during the Great Depression in the 1930s to sustain book purchases?

Serialisation
Shilling Series
Dust cover
Cheap paperback editions

3. In which century did manuscripts continue to be produced despite the introduction of print?

17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century

4. In what languages were manuscripts written in India?

Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian
English, French, German
Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Latin, Greek, Hebrew

5. How were manuscripts preserved?

Encased in glass
Pressed between wooden covers
Stored in metal boxes
Buried underground

6. Why were manuscripts not widely used in everyday life?

They were too colorful
They were highly expensive and fragile
They were too heavy
They were difficult to copy

7. In pre-colonial Bengal, what did students often learn in village primary schools?

Reading and writing
Only reading
Only writing
Sculpture and painting

8. How did teachers impart knowledge to students in pre-colonial Bengal?

Through lectures
Through reading books
By dictating portions of texts from memory
Through practical experiments

9. Why did many students in pre-colonial Bengal become literate without reading texts?

They were not interested in reading
Books were not available
Teachers did not allow reading
They learned to write without reading

10. What material were manuscripts copied on?

Metal sheets
Palm leaves or handmade paper
Plastic sheets
Canvas