Class 10 - History

Print culture and the modern world Online MCQs Test

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Set 18

1. During the early nineteenth century, what played a significant role in shaping debates around religious issues?

Private discussions
Printed tracts and newspapers
Colonial rulers
Traditional rituals

2. How did printed tracts and newspapers contribute to the religious debates?

They suppressed new ideas
They discouraged public discussions
They shaped the nature of the debate and spread new ideas
They were irrelevant to the debates

3. What was a major focus of the intense controversies in Bengal during the nineteenth century?

Widow immolation
Monotheism
Both A and B
Brahmanical priesthood

4. How did Rammohun Roy contribute to the religious debates in Bengal?

Opposed the debates
Commissioned the Samachar Chandrika
Published the Sambad Kaumudi
Encouraged idolatry

5. What was the response of the Hindu orthodoxy to Rammohun Roy's opinions?

Commissioned the Jam-i-Jahan Nama
Published the Shamsul Akhbar
Commissioned the Samachar Chandrika
Commissioned the Sambad Kaumudi

6. What language were the ideas printed in to reach a wider audience in Bengal?

Sanskrit
Persian
Ordinary spoken language of people
Latin

7. What did the ulama in north India fear during the nineteenth century?

Collapse of Hindu dynasties
Conversion to Hinduism
Conversion and changes in Muslim personal laws
Introduction of polytheism

8. What did the ulama use to counter the feared changes in north India?

Wooden printing presses
Lithographic presses
Typewriters
Handwritten scrolls

9. What language were religious newspapers and tracts printed in by the ulama in north India?

Sanskrit
Urdu and Persian
English
Latin

10. What did the ulama publish in response to the feared changes in north India?

Translated novels
Religious newspapers and tracts
Political cartoons
Scientific journals