Class 10 - History

Print culture and the modern world Online MCQs Test

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Set 21

1. What effect did the increased writing about the lives and feelings of women have on women's reading habits?

Decreased reading
No change in reading habits
Increased reading enormously
Limited reading to specific genres

2. How did liberal husbands and fathers contribute to women's education?

Sent women to work
Educated women at home and in schools
Restricted women's education
Ignored women's education

3. What did journals do to promote women's education?

Discouraged women's education
Provided a platform for women's writings
Opposed women's schools
Limited the reading matter for women

4. Why did conservative Hindus oppose the education of girls?

They believed in women's education
They thought educated girls would be widowed
They encouraged women's education
They believed in equal education for all

5. Why did some Muslims fear the education of women?

They believed in equal education for all
They thought educated women would be corrupted by reading Urdu romances
They encouraged women's education
They believed in women's education

6. How did rebel women respond to the prohibitions on education?

They complied with the prohibitions
They openly opposed prohibitions
They accepted prohibitions
They ignored the prohibitions

7. What language did the girl from a conservative Muslim family insist on learning to read and write?

Arabic
Persian
Urdu
English

8. In which region did Rashsundari Debi, a young married girl, secretly learn to read in the early nineteenth century?

North India
South India
East Bengal
West Bengal

9. What did Rashsundari Debi later write, and when was it published?

A cookbook, published in 1850
An autobiography, published in 1876
A religious text, published in 1800
A poem collection, published in 1900

10. What was special about Rashsundari Debi's autobiography?

It was written in Arabic
It was the first full-length autobiography published in the Urdu language
It was the first full-length autobiography published in the Bengali language
It was published anonymously