Very Short Answers Questions (VSAQs) for Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern World Class 10 History
Important Questions1
What is Calligraphy?
Answer
The art of beautiful and stylish writing.
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2
Who was Menocchio?
Answer
Menocchio was a miller of sixteenth century in Italy who reinterpreted the message of the Bible and formulated a view of God and Creation that enraged the Roman Catholic Church.
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3
Who introduced hand-printing technology in Japan?
Answer
Buddhist missionaries from China.
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4
How we can say that, Gutenberg’s press was too slow as compared to present press technology?
Answer
It could print 180 copies of Bible in three years.
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5
Name the first book printed by Johann Gutenberg.
Answer
Bible.
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6
Which is the oldest printed Japanese book?
Answer
Diamond Sutra.
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7
Who developed the first printing press?
Answer
Johann Gutenberg.
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8
Mention any one feature of the oldest Japanese book.
Answer
Oldest Japanese book contained six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations.
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9
Which method of hand-printing was developed in China?
Answer
Woodblock printing.
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10
Despite the woodblock printing, what factor raised the demand of new technology in print?
Answer
Gradual increase in demand than the rate of printing by the use of wood-block printing led to the demand of new technology.
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11
How were Biliotheque Bleue different from penny chap books?
Answer
Both were low priced books printed on poor quality paper but the Biliotheque Bleue were bounded in cheap blue covers.
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12
Who agreed to revise Press Laws in 1835?
Answer
Governor General Bentinck.
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13
In which country was the earliest kind of print technology developed?
Answer
China.
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14
What was the ancient name of Tokyo.
Answer
Edo.
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15
Why were cheap paperback editions of books printed by the end of the eighteenth century?
Answer
So that poor people could buy them.
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16
Name the news paper started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in India in the 19th century.
Answer
'Kesari’ was the newspaper started by the Bal Gangadhar Tilak in India during 19th century.
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17
Who wrote the autobiography ‘Amar Jiban’ published in 1876?
Answer
Rash Sundari Debi.
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18
When did the first printing press come to India?
Answer
In the middle of the 16th century.
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19
Name the first weekly paper published in India.
Answer
Bengal Gazette.
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20
By whom was the printing press first introduced in India?
Answer
Portuguese missionaries.
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21
What is ‘diamond sutra’?
Answer
A system of governance in which absolute power is exercised by an individual, unregulated by legal and constitutional checks.
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22
When was hand printing introduced in Japan?
Answer
In 768-770 A.D.
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23
What is Fatwa?
Answer
A legal pronouncement of Islamic law usually given by a mufti (legal scholar) to clarify issues on which the law is uncertain.
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24
Name two Persian newspapers?
Answer
‘Jam-i-Jahan Nama’ and ‘Shamsul Akbar’
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25
What is Inquisition?
Answer
A former Roman Catholic Court for identifying and punishing heretics.
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26
What is vellum?
Answer
Vellum is a parchment made from the skin of animals.
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27
Who was a scribe?
Answer
Skilled writers of the manuscripts in the ancient and medieval ages.
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