Please refer to Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern World MCQ Class 10 Social Science with answers below. These multiple-choice questions have been prepared based on the latest NCERT book for Class 10 Social Science. Students should refer to MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science with Answers to score more marks in Grade 10 Social Science exams. Students should read the chapter Print Culture and the Modern World and then attempt the following objective questions.

MCQ Questions Class 10 Social Science Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern World

The Print Culture and the Modern World MCQ Class 10 Social Science provided below covers all important topics given in this chapter. These MCQs will help you to properly prepare for exams.

Question. A children’s press, devoted to literature for children alone, was set up in France in:
(a) 1837
(b) 1847
(c) 1857
(d) 1867

Question. The earlier name of Tokyo was:
(a) Ido
(b) Ado
(c) Edo
(d) None of the above

Question. The first printed book was the:
(a) Bible
(b) Ramayana
(c) Mahabharata
(d) All the above

Question. The shift from hand-printing to mechanical printing led to the:
(a) Book revolution
(b) Print revolution
(c) Mechanical revolution
(d) None of the above

Question. Kesari was owned by:
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) All the above

Question. Bal Gangadhar was imprisoned in:
(a) 1908
(b) 1909
(c) 1910
(d) 1911

Question. A historical account or folk tale in verse, usually sung or recited is called a:
(a) Travern
(b) Ballad
(c) Verse
(d) None of the above

Question. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries literacy rates:
(a) Went down in most parts of Europe
(b) Remained same in most parts of Europe
(c) Went up in most parts of Europe
(d) None of the above

Question. The ritual calenders were called:
(a) Almanacs
(b) Holy calenders
(c) Chap books
(d) None of the above

Question. In the 1920s in England, popular works were sold in cheap series, called the:
(a) Dollar series
(b) Pound Series
(c) Shilling Series
(d) None of the above

Question. India had a very rich and old tradition of hand-written manuscripts in:
(a) Sanskrit, Arabic and various vernacular languages
(b) Arabic, Persian and various vernacular languages
(c) Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian
(d) Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and various vernacular languages

Question. Amar Jiban was the autobiography of:
(а) Rashsundari Debi
(b) Kalpana Debi
(c) Mahasundari Debi
(d) none of the above

Question. Istri Dharm Vichar was published by:
(a) Shyam Chaddha
(b) Sohan Chaddha
(c) Mohan Chaddha
(d) Ram Chaddha

Question. Marco Polo returned to Italy after many years of exploration in:
(a) 1285
(b) 1275
(c) 1295
(d) 1765

Question. Johann Gutenberg developed the first known printing press in the:
(a) 1420s
(b) 1430s
(c) 1440s
(d) 1450s

Fill in the blanks

Question. Some social reforms and novels had already created a great interest in ……………………… lives and emotion.

Question. Ram Mohan Roy published the Sambad Kaumudi from ……………………… .

Question. From 1822, two Persian newspapers were published, Jan-i-Jahan and ……………………… .

Question. The self-educated working class people wrote ……………………… tracts and auto-biographies in large numbers.

Question. The ……………………… of several individual mechanical improvements transferred the appearance of printed texts.

Question. In ……………………… a folk literature was widely printed from the early twentieth century.

Question. The Vernacular Press Act was passed in ……………………… .

Write true (T) or false (F)

Question. Print directly shaped the minds of the people and opened up the possibility of thinking differently.

Question. Production of schools textbooks became critical for the publishing industry.

Question. In the seventeenth century, Manocchio began to read books that were available in his locality.

Question. The Roman Church began to maintain an Index of Prohibited Books from 1558.

Question. Gutenberg was the son of a merchant and grew up on a large agricultural estate.

Question. About 190 copies of the Bible were printed and it took three years to produce them.

Question. Access to books created a new culture of reading.

Question. Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a new world of debate and discussion.

Question. The periodical press developed from the early eighteenth century, combining information about current affairs and politics.

Question. The writings of thinkers such as Thomas Paine, Voltaire, etc. were widely printed and read.

Question. Skilled craftsmen could duplicate, with remarkable accuracy, the beauty of Calligraphy.

Question. Japan, possessed a huge bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through civil service examinations.

Question. Production of handwritten manuscripts was also organised in new ways to meet the expanded demand.

Question. The production of handwritten manuscripts could satisfy the ever-increasing demand for books.

Question. Wives of scholar-officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives.

Match the following

Question.

Column-A	Column-B
1. Oldest Japanese Book	(a) 1430s
2. Kitagawa Utamaro	(b) ballad
3. The first printing press	(c) galley
4. A historical accent or folk tale	(d) Diamond Sutra
5. Metal frame in which types are laid	(e) born in Eolo

Question.

Column-I	Column-II	Column-III
1. A children’s press was set-up in	(a) readers as well	(A) in 1857
2. Women became important as	(b) England	(B) 1930S
3. Shilling Series were sold in	(c) in the	(C) J.A. Hickey
4. The Great Depression occurred	(d) France	(D) in the 1920s
5. Bengal Gazette was edited	(e) by	(E) as writers

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