Welcome to your Print culture and the modern world (Quiz)
2. Which autobiographies provide glimpses of the struggles of poor people learning to read?
3. What was the name of the first English language weekly magazine in India?
4. What action did the Roman Catholic Church take to control heretical ideas?
5. Why did the editor of The Friend of India refuse a government subsidy?
6. What was the primary purpose of the Defence of India Rules during the First World War?
7. What was included in the Tripitaka Koreana collection?
8. Approximately how many copies of Gutenberg's Bible were printed?
9. Which explorer brought the knowledge of woodblock printing to Europe from China?
10. What were the first items printed using woodblocks in Europe?
11. Who strongly condemned men for withholding education from women during the Bengal Women’s Education Conference in 1926?
12. What was the impact of the Sedition Committee Report under Rowlatt in 1919 on the press?
13. What literary form, introduced in Europe, catered to the growing demand for relatable stories in India?
14. What was a key factor in the spread of religious debates in colonial India?
15. What strategy did publishers adopt during the Great Depression of the 1930s to sustain book purchases?
16. What did Thomas Wood, a Yorkshire mechanic, do in the evenings?
17. Who wrote Burhi Aair Sadhu (A collection of Assamese folktales)?
18. What was the name of the publication by Ram Chaddha that taught women to be obedient wives?
19. In the late 19th-century woodcuts, how is the woman represented in the image titled Ghor Kali?
20. What kind of themes were depicted in the illustrated collections of paintings in Edo?
21. What limitation did handwritten manuscripts have?
22. Which of the following developments helped accelerate printing operations from the turn of the twentieth century?
23. Which newspaper was published to counter Rammohan Roy's ideas?
24. Which profession grew near letterpresses to meet the demand for illustrations?
25. Who declared that "The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress"?
26. Who was the artist known for producing images for mass circulation in the 19th century?
27. Which group of people became important readers in the nineteenth century as primary education became compulsory?
28. What role did print play in religious debates during the 19th century?
29. Why did Governor-General Warren Hastings persecute James Augustus Hickey?
30. What were Martin Luther’s Ninety Five Theses primarily aimed at?
31. Who was Menocchio, and why did he face persecution?
32. What did Mercier proclaim as the force that would sweep despotism away?
33. What was the traditional Chinese book style called?
34. What kind of culture existed before the print revolution?
35. Which newspaper did Rammohun Roy publish in 1821?
36. What role did print culture play in the French Revolution?
37. What happened after the revolt of 1857 regarding press freedom?
38. What was the earliest system of printing called?
39. What innovation in printing technology developed in the late nineteenth century allowed printing in multiple colors at once?
40. Who wrote Gulamgiri in 1871, addressing the injustices of the caste system?
41. What was the primary aim of Krishnaji Trimbuck Ranade's proposed newspaper in 1849?
42. How did the writings of thinkers like Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Rousseau spread during the eighteenth century?
43. What was the purpose of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
44. What did merchants in China use print for during the seventeenth century?
45. Who published the first weekly English-language magazine in India?
46. What was the main fear among Muslims about educating women?
47. How did the print revolution contribute to the Protestant Reformation?
48. How did the print revolution challenge established authorities and institutions?
49. When was the first Tamil book printed in India, and where?
50. Which Gujarati newspaper made its appearance in 1822?
51. What role did scribes play for booksellers?
52. What was the main material used for producing manuscripts in pre-colonial India?
53. What did cartoons and caricatures typically suggest about the monarchy in the eighteenth century?
54. In the image of a European couple, what does the Sahib hold in his hand?
55. What cultural fear does the black-and-white woodcut of an Indian couple represent?
56. What were the 'Biliotheque Bleue' in France?
57. What societal concern did the move towards women’s education in the late 19th century create?
58. Why did the East India Company initially implement censorship measures before 1798?
59. What were 'penny chapbooks' in England?
60. Why did aristocratic circles scoff at printed books?
61. What did the Grimm Brothers do in Germany in the early nineteenth century?
62. What was the significant innovation in printing technology developed by Richard M. Hoe in the mid-nineteenth century?
63. How did print create a pan-Indian identity?
64. Why did the Deoband Seminary extensively use print in the 19th century?
65. Why did Erasmus criticize printing in Adages?
66. How many scribes often worked for one bookseller to meet demand?
67. In which year was Amar Jiban published?
68. What material was used for luxury editions of books in Europe during the Middle Ages?
69. What was the first book printed by Johann Gutenberg?
70. What was the primary concern of the ulama during British rule?
71. Who introduced hand-printing technology to Japan?
72. What was the primary concern of conservative Hindus regarding women's literacy?
73. What did Martin Luther call the printing press?
74. What role did the children's press in France play in the nineteenth century?
75. What was the Shilling Series introduced in 1920s England?
76. What was used to create the printing blocks in Japan?
77. Which two Persian newspapers were published in 1822?
78. Who brought the printing press to Goa in the mid-sixteenth century?
79. According to Gandhi in 1922, what was the fight for Swaraj and Khilafat also a fight for?
80. What significant movement did Martin Luther’s actions and writings lead to?
81. Where was the earliest kind of print technology developed?
82. Which of the following best describes the impact of illustrated books during the early print revolution?
83. Where did Johann Gutenberg develop the first-known printing press?
84. In pre-colonial Bengali education, what skill was primarily taught?
85. Which Japanese city became a hub of urban culture in the late 18th century?
86. Which new genre emerged as a way for women to voice their experiences in the 19th century?
87. What is the name of the oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868?
88. What was the title of the book written by Kashibaba, a Kanpur millworker, in 1938?
89. Who edited the Bengal Gazette?
90. How did the print revolution redefine people’s relationship with knowledge?
91. Who was the major producer of printed material in early China?
92. Why did religious authorities and monarchs fear the spread of printed books?
93. Which city became the hub of new print culture in China by the late nineteenth century?
94. How did publishers attract common people to printed books?
95. Who was the first Indian to publish a newspaper in India?
96. Which of the following is a collection of poems written by a Kanpur millworker under the name Sudarshan Chakr?
97. Which press first published the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas?
98. Where in Bengal was an entire area devoted to the printing of popular books in the late 19th century?
99. Which woman wrote Amar Jiban, the first full-length autobiography published in the Bengali language?
100. Which city hosted the development of the first-known printing press?
101. What role did print culture play in shaping people's minds during the French Revolution?
102. Which society in Punjab published cheap booklets promoting the qualities of a good woman?
103. What was the innovation in book design introduced in the twentieth century?
