Class 10 History – Chapter 4 Print Culture and the Modern World
50 MCQs with Answers (Board Exam Focus)
🔵 MCQ SET (1–50)
1. The earliest kind of print technology was developed in:
a) India
b) China
c) USA
d) Japan
Answer: b) China
2. The first form of printing was done on:
a) Leaves
b) Cloth
c) Paper
d) Woodblock
Answer: d) Woodblock
3. Printing in China was popular among:
a) Peasants
b) Merchants
c) Bureaucrats & Scholars
d) Soldiers
Answer: c) Bureaucrats & Scholars
4. Who invented the printing press with movable metal type?
a) James Watt
b) Johann Gutenberg
c) Isaac Newton
d) Roger Bacon
Answer: b) Johann Gutenberg
5. Gutenberg was from:
a) Germany
b) Italy
c) France
d) England
Answer: a) Germany
6. The first printed book by Gutenberg was:
a) Bible
b) Ramayana
c) Quran
d) Odyssey
Answer: a) Bible
7. The first book printed in India was in:
a) Mumbai
b) Kochi
c) Chennai
d) Goa
Answer: d) Goa
8. The first printing press in India was set up by:
a) British
b) Dutch
c) Portuguese
d) French
Answer: c) Portuguese
9. Europe witnessed a print revolution in:
a) 8th century
b) 11th century
c) 15th century
d) 18th century
Answer: c) 15th century
10. The term ‘Calligraphy’ means:
a) Fast writing
b) Beautiful handwriting
c) Machine writing
d) Digital writing
Answer: b) Beautiful handwriting
11. The earliest books in Japan were known as:
a) Ukiyo
b) Tanka
c) Kissa
d) Mandates
Answer: a) Ukiyo
12. The reading mania in Europe started in:
a) 16th century
b) 17th century
c) 18th century
d) 19th century
Answer: c) 18th century
13. Penny magazines became popular among:
a) Aristocrats
b) Poor people
c) Middle-class women
d) Children
Answer: b) Poor people
14. The term ‘Chapbook’ refers to:
a) Expensive book
b) Cheap pocket-sized books
c) Religious text
d) Children’s book
Answer: b) Cheap pocket-sized books
15. Ballads were mainly:
a) Poems
b) Songs
c) Newspapers
d) Magazines
Answer: b) Songs
16. Which movement encouraged reading among women?
a) Enlightenment
b) Renaissance
c) Industrialisation
d) Nationalism
Answer: a) Enlightenment
17. The person who criticised print culture was:
a) Rousseau
b) Charles Dickens
c) Duke of Wellington
d) Voltaire
Answer: c) Duke of Wellington
18. Who explained that print culture created conditions for the French Revolution?
a) Louis XIV
b) Roger Chartier
c) Rousseau
d) Gutenberg
Answer: b) Roger Chartier
19. Which novelist feared harmful effects of reading?
a) Jane Austen
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) Samuel Richardson
Answer: d) Samuel Richardson
20. Children’s press was set up in India in:
a) 1810
b) 1850
c) 1880
d) 1900
Answer: c) 1880
21. The first Indian newspaper was:
a) Bombay Gazette
b) Bengal Gazette
c) Indian Herald
d) Calcutta Chronicle
Answer: b) Bengal Gazette
22. Bengal Gazette was edited by:
a) James Hickey
b) Rajaram Mohan Roy
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: a) James Hickey
23. The Vernacular Press Act was passed in:
a) 1857
b) 1878
c) 1890
d) 1905
Answer: b) 1878
24. Vernacular Press Act was passed by:
a) Lord Curzon
b) Lord Lytton
c) Lord Ripon
d) Warren Hastings
Answer: b) Lord Lytton
25. The Vernacular Press Act aimed to:
a) Promote Indian languages
b) Free the Indian press
c) Restrict newspapers in local languages
d) Improve literacy
Answer: c) Restrict newspapers in local languages
26. Who started the newspaper ‘Kesari’?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
d) Subhash Bose
Answer: c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
27. Who wrote ‘Sambad Kaumudi’?
a) Gandhi
b) Raja Rammohan Roy
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Tilak
Answer: b) Raja Rammohan Roy
28. Lithography was used in India to:
a) Print coins
b) Print images
c) Print cloth
d) Publish advertisements
Answer: b) Print images
29. Printing helped in the spread of:
a) Religion
b) Modern ideas
c) Literacy
d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above
30. Who said: “Printing is the ultimate gift of God”?
a) Martin Luther
b) Rousseau
c) Tolstoy
d) Dickens
Answer: a) Martin Luther
31. Luther translated the Bible into:
a) French
b) Latin
c) English
d) German
Answer: d) German
32. Protestant Reformation was strengthened by:
a) Radio
b) Church
c) Printing press
d) Schools
Answer: c) Printing press
33. The Roman Catholic Church banned:
a) All books
b) Books listed in the Index
c) Only newspapers
d) All scientific texts
Answer: b) Books listed in the Index
34. Which country developed hand-printing traditions?
a) China
b) India
c) Japan
d) Russia
Answer: c) Japan
35. Ukiyo prints were famous in:
a) China
b) Japan
c) India
d) USA
Answer: b) Japan
36. Who adopted woodblock printing after Chinese influence?
a) Europeans
b) Japanese
c) Africans
d) Egyptians
Answer: b) Japanese
37. Print culture increased access to:
a) Knowledge
b) Rituals
c) Luxury
d) Food
Answer: a) Knowledge
38. Printing reduced the cost of:
a) Schools
b) Books
c) Food
d) Metals
Answer: b) Books
39. Who used printing to challenge the British?
a) Ambedkar
b) Tilak
c) Gandhi
d) Bhagat Singh
Answer: c) Gandhi
40. Gandhi published:
a) Kesari
b) Swarajya
c) Harijan
d) Tribune
Answer: c) Harijan
41. The first Tamil newspaper was:
a) Dina Thanthi
b) Swadesamitran
c) Tamil Press
d) Madurai Gazette
Answer: b) Swadesamitran
42. The first Hindi newspaper:
a) Udant Martand
b) Kesari
c) Bharat Mitra
d) Navjeevan
Answer: a) Udant Martand
43. Raja Rammohan Roy used print to spread:
a) Politics
b) Social reforms
c) Medical science
d) Trade
Answer: b) Social reforms
44. In 1550, the number of books printed in Europe was around:
a) 10,000
b) 20,000
c) 50,000
d) Millions
Answer: d) Millions
45. The ‘Reading Revolution’ happened because of:
a) Cheap books
b) Schools
c) Factories
d) Computers
Answer: a) Cheap books
46. The spread of novels was possible due to:
a) Radio
b) Printing press
c) Stage plays
d) Newspapers
Answer: b) Printing press
47. Printing created:
a) Fear
b) Superstition
c) Public opinion
d) Corruption
Answer: c) Public opinion
48. Newspapers in India became tools of:
a) Entertainment
b) Religion
c) Nationalism
d) Art
Answer: c) Nationalism
49. Cheap books in India were printed at:
a) Calcutta
b) Kanpur
c) Madras
d) Bombay
Answer: b) Kanpur
50. Print culture helped the growth of:
a) Industries
b) Nationalism
c) Teachers
d) War
Answer: b) Nationalism