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