Assignments Class 10 Social Science Print Culture and the Modern World

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Print Culture and the Modern World Assignments Class 10 Social Science

Very short answer type Questions

Question. Who invented first printing press in Europe?
(a) Martin Luthar King
(b) Johann Gutenberg
(c) Louis Sabestian Marcier
(d) none of the above
Ans. Johann Gutenberg

Question. Name two Persian newspapers which were published in 1882.
Ans. Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamsul Akhbar

Question. In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statement and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): Due to Print revolution the listening public converted into reading public.
Reason (R): Now books had reached wider sections of society.
Option:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of
(b) Both A and R are true and but R is not the correct explanation of
(d) A is correct and R is Incorrect.
(d) A is incorrect but R is correct.
Ans. (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of

Question. Define Ulema.
Ans. Legal scholars of Islam and the sharia (a body of Islamic law)

Question. In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statement and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): Manuscripts were pressed between wooden covers or sewn together to ensure preservation..
Reason (R): Manuscripts were copied on palm leaves or on handmade paper.
Option:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of
(b) Both A and R are true and but R is not the correct explanation of
(c) A is correct and R is Incorrect.
(d) A is incorrect but R is correct.
Ans. (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Question. Who brought printing technique to India and when?
Ans. Portuguese, 16th Century

Question. Which was the first book printed by Johann Gutenberg?
Ans. Bible

Question. Define Fatwa.
Ans. A legal pronouncement on Islamic law usually given by a mufti (legal scholar) to clarify issues on which the law is uncertain.

Question. Rewrite the sentence after correcting the underlined word-
Martin Luther King said ‘Printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and public opinion is the force that will sweep despotism away’
Ans.  Louis Sabestian Marciers

Question. What is the theme of the book ‘Gulamgiri’?
Ans. Against caste System

Question. Which was the first newspaper of India?
Ans. Bengal gazette

Question. Who brought woodblock printing technology to Europe?
Ans. Marco polo

Question. Fill in the blank:
Travelling peddlers in England who sold penny chapbooks were called ……………..
Ans. Chapman

Question. In which country printing technology was first developed?
Ans. China

Question. State True or False for the following sentence-In 1878, the Vernacular Press Act was passed modeled on the Irish Press Act. Choose the correct match.
(a) Martin Luther King – Japan
(b) Marcopolo – Italy
(c) Louis Sabastian Mercier – Britain
(d) Raja Rammohun Roy – France
Ans. True

Question. Which edition of books was given more importance to tackle the problem of great depression?
Ans. Paperback edition

Question. In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statement and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): The oldest Japanese book the ‘Diamond Sutra’ printed in AD 868.
Reason (R): Buddhist missionaries from China introduced printing technology into Japan around AD 768-770.
Option:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of
(b) Both A and R are true and but R is not the correct explanation of
(c) A is correct and R is Incorrect.
(d) A is incorrect but R is correct.
Ans. (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Question. What do you understand by wood-block printing?
Ans. Rubbing paper against the inked surface of woodblocks

Question. What is meant by ‘Reformation’?
Ans. Religious reform in Roman Catholic Church

Short/ Long Questions 

Question. What steps were taken by the Britishers to curtail the freedom of press in India?
Ans. After the 1857 revolt angry Britishers sought for control on press.
• Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878
• Reports of vernacular newspapers were censored
• Government kept regular track of the newspapers.
• Even the assets of press were confiscated.

Source Based Questions

Question. Read the extract and answer the following questions-
The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea. This was a system of hand printing. From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper – also invented there – againsat the inked surface of woodblocks. As both sides of the thin, porous sheet could not be printed, the traditional Chinese ‘accordion book’ was folded and stitched at the side. Superbly skilled craftsmen could duplicate, with remarkable accuracy, the beauty of calligraphy. The imperial state in China was, for a very long time, the major producer of printed material. China possessed a huge bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through civil service examinations. Textbooks for this examination were
printed in vast numbers under the sponsorship of the imperial state. From the sixteenth century, the number of examination candidates went up and that increased the volume of print.

(i) Which of the following country did not have printing technique in the beginning?
(a) India
(b) China
(c) Japan
(d) Korea
Ans. (a) India

(ii) What do you understand by the ‘Accordion style’?
Ans. Folded and stitched to me side.

(iii) Why did China publish printed material on large scale?
Ans. For printing examination material for civil serives enamination.

(iv) What was the work of calligraphers?
Ans. They were the people who were expent is the art of beautiful and stylised sriting.