Class 10 - History

Print culture and the modern world Online MCQs Test

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Set 24

1. In nineteenth-century Madras towns, where were very cheap small books sold to allow poor people to buy them?

Bookstores
Libraries
Crossroads
Markets

2. Where were public libraries mostly located in the early twentieth century?

Only in cities
Only in towns
Cities, towns, and prosperous villages
Only in prosperous villages

3. Why did rich local patrons set up libraries in the late nineteenth century?

To make a profit
To acquire prestige
To support local authors
To promote caste discrimination

4. In the late nineteenth century, what issue began to be written about in many printed tracts and essays?

Economic inequality
Caste discrimination
Political corruption
Technological advancements

5. Who wrote about the injustices of the caste system in his Gulamgiri (1871)?

B.R. Ambedkar
Jyotiba Phule
E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Periyar

6. Who wrote powerfully on caste in the twentieth century in Maharashtra?

Jyotiba Phule
B.R. Ambedkar
E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Periyar

7. What did local protest movements and sects create in the twentieth century?

Technological advancements
Popular journals and tracts
Political parties
Economic reforms

8. Who wrote and published "Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal" in 1938 to show the links between caste and class exploitation?

B.R. Ambedkar
E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Jyotiba Phule
Kashibaba

9. Whose poems were brought together and published in a collection called "Sacchi Kavitayan"?

Jyotiba Phule
B.R. Ambedkar
E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Sudarshan Chakr

10. In which city did Sudarshan Chakr, a Kanpur millworker, write his poems between 1935 and 1955?

Mumbai
Chennai
Kanpur
Delhi