CBSE X Print Culture and the Modern World practice questions

Question 1

According to NCERT’s account, which Indian brought out the weekly Bengal Gazette and was close to Rammohun Roy?

Accepted Answer

Gangadhar Bhattacharya

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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N.G. Ranade

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Raja Rammohun Roy

Question 2

Why was the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 introduced, and what power did it give the colonial government?

Accepted Answer

To curb nationalist criticism; it enabled censorship and action against reports judged seditious

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To end censorship and grant unrestricted press freedom

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To prohibit only English-language newspapers

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To require all newspapers to praise Indian independence

Question 3

Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses that criticised practices of the Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

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Johann Gutenberg

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Charles Dickens

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Louis-Sébastien Mercier

Question 4

Why did colonial authorities introduce the Vernacular Press Act of 1878,and what did it enable?

Accepted Answer

To curb critical nationalist reporting through censorship and penalties

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To grant unrestricted editorial freedom

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To abolish only English newspapers

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To fund an independent elected press council

Question 5

What is a manuscript?

Accepted Answer

A text written by hand

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A text necessarily printed by a steam press

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Only a radio broadcast

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Only a stone factory machine

Question 6

Which pair correctly describes traditional manuscripts?

Accepted Answer

Often copied on palm leaves or handmade paper; expensive, fragile and sometimes difficult to read

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Always indestructible and mass-produced by machine

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Always free and identical in handwriting

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Never illustrated and never bound

Question 7

Which publications reached new popular audiences in eighteenth-century Europe?

Accepted Answer

Ballads, folk tales, inexpensive chapbooks, almanacs and periodicals

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Only secret handwritten court records

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Only expensive one-copy manuscripts

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Only digital websites

Question 8

Match the following columns and select the correct optoin. Column I Column II (A) Vernacular Press Act (i) Jyotiba Phule (B) Chote Aur Bade ka Sawal (ii) 1878 (C) Rashsundari Debi (iii) Amar Jiban (D) Gulamgiri (iv) Caste and class exploitation A B C D

Accepted Answer

(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

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(ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

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(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

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(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)