Class 10 - History

Print culture and the modern world Online MCQs Test

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Set 8

1. What did the printing press contribute to the emergence of?

(A) A new elite culture
(B) A new reading public
(C) A new oral culture
(D) A new elite readership

2. How did printing affect the cost of books?

(A) Increased the cost
(B) Reduced the cost
(C) Had no effect on the cost
(D) Made books more expensive

3. What change did printing bring to the production of books?

(A) Increased time and labour
(B) Reduced time and labour
(C) No change in time and labour
(D) Made production slower

4. How did books reach out to an ever-growing readership?

(A) Through expensive editions
(B) By restricting access
(C) By flooding the market
(D) By limiting production

5. Before the age of print, who had access to reading?

(A) Common people
(B) Elites
(C) Both common people and elites
(D) No one

6. What type of culture did common people live in before the age of print?

(A) Written culture
(B) Oral culture
(C) Reading culture
(D) Digital culture

7. What was the primary mode of knowledge transfer before the age of print?

(A) Reading
(B) Oral culture
(C) Writing
(D) Digital transmission

8. Why did publishers publish popular ballads and folk tales with illustrations?

(A) To increase book prices
(B) To make books less appealing
(C) To persuade common people to welcome printed books
(D) To limit access to books

9. How did oral culture enter print?

(A) Through handwritten manuscripts
(B) By limiting access
(C) By oral transmission of printed material
(D) Through digital illustrations

10. What happened to the line that separated oral and reading cultures with the advent of print?

(A) It became more defined
(B) It disappeared and became blurred
(C) It shifted towards written culture
(D) It became irrelevant