Printing and Politics

Q.

Who was the leader of the Jacobin club in France?

Q. Give an account of Martin Luther’s criticism of the church.

Q. Who invented the power driven cylindrical press?

1. Gutenberg
2. Richard M. Hoe
3. Marco Polo
4. Martin Luther

Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about the influence of the print media on politics in Europe during the fifteenth century?

1. Unconditional subservience prevailed towards state and the church.
2. People became unreasonable and irrational.
3. New ideas of social revolution emerged.
4. Re-evaluation of the values, norms, and institutions.

Q. The queen of France responsible for the French Revolution was ________.

1. Queen Marie Antoinette
2. Queen Elizabeth
3. Queen Isabella
4. Queen Marie Teresa

Q. Ram says that by the late eighteenth century, there was an abundance of printed material which mocked the royalty and their skewed morality. Rahul says that the print as a medium did not root for the people to overthrow the monarchy. Who do you think is right?

1. Rahul is right.
2. Both are right.
3. Ram is right.
4. Both are wrong.

Q. In the 18th century, wrote novels in which the central characters would be lost in books and make changes in the real world.

1. Voltaire
2. Rousseau
3. Gutenberg
4. Mercier

Q. What was the basic philosophy of the conservatives?

1. They opposed monarchial forms.
2. They were supporters of democracy.
3. They stressed the importance of tradition and established institutions and customs.
4. They wanted to glorify folk art and vernacular language.

Q. What is novel? Mention any two features of novel.
Or
What were the three defects in copying manuscript? Mention any two uses of printing press.

Q. State whether true or false.
Parody, whether in literature, art, music, or other forms, find something to ridicule within the original piece of work, whether lightly or harshly.

1. True
2. False