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Important Questions on Print Culture and the Modern World
Read the statements below carefully and choose the correct option.
Statement 1: Hand-printing technology was introduced in Japan around AD 768-770 by Buddhist missionaries from China.
Statement 2: With the growing demand for books, woodblock printing gradually became more popular in Europe.
Statement 3: Printing reduced the cost of books.
Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of column B and select the correct choice:
Column A Column B
I. Calligraphy i. Genre of woodblock print and paintings which flourished in Japanese art from the late th to late th century.
2. Tripitaka Koreana ii. The art of beautiful and stylised writing
3. Edo Ill. Korean collection of Buddhist scriptures carved onto wooden printing blocks in theth century.
4. Ukiyo-e IV. What Tokyo was known as before the Meiji Restoration.
Read the statements below carefully and choose the correct option.
Statement 1: Compositors are people who compose the text for printing.
Statement 2: Galley is the metal frame in which types are laid and the text composed.
Statement 3: Gutenberg Printing Press came to be known as the stationary type printing machine.
Read the statements below carefully and choose the correct option.
Statement 1: Protestant Reformation was a Protestant movement to reform the Catholic Church dominated by Rome.
Statement 2: Chapbooks were sold by petty recited pedlars known as chapmen.
Statement 3: The first printed edition of Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas came out from Calcutta in 1956.
