Quiz: Print Culture and the Modern World
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Question 1: The chapter discusses the development of print from its beginnings in East Asia to its expansion in _____ and in India.
Question 2: The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, _____ and Korea.
Question 3: From AD _____ onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper against the inked surface of woodblocks.
Question 4: The traditional Chinese ‘accordion book’ was folded and stitched at the _____.
Question 5: The imperial state in China was the major producer of printed material because it recruited personnel through civil service _____.
Question 6: By the seventeenth century, as urban culture bloomed in China, the uses of print _____.
Question 7: Rich women in China began to read, and many women began publishing their _____ and plays.
Question 8: Western printing techniques and mechanical presses were imported in the late _____ century as Western powers established their outposts in China.
Question 9: _____ became the hub of the new print culture in China, catering to the Western-style schools.
Question 10: Buddhist missionaries from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD _____ -770.
Question 11: The oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, is the Buddhist _____ Sutra.
Question 12: In medieval Japan, poets and prose writers were regularly published, and books were cheap and _____.
Question 13: In the late eighteenth century, in the flourishing urban circles at Edo (later to be known as _____ ), illustrated collections of paintings depicted an elegant urban culture.
Question 14: Kitagawa Utamaro was widely known for his contributions to an art form called _____ (‘pictures of the floating world’).
Question 15: In the eleventh century, Chinese paper reached Europe via the _____ route.
Question 16: In 1295, _____ Polo, a great explorer, returned to Italy after many years of exploration in China.
Question 17: Luxury editions were still handwritten on very expensive _____, meant for aristocratic circles and rich monastic libraries.
Question 18: By the early fifteenth century, woodblocks were being widely used in Europe to print textiles, playing cards, and religious pictures with simple, brief _____.
Question 19: The breakthrough in print technology occurred at Strasbourg, Germany, where Johann _____ developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s.
Question 20: Gutenberg was the son of a _____ and grew up on a large agricultural estate.
Question 21: The first book Gutenberg printed was the _____.
Question 22: About _____ copies of the Bible were printed by Gutenberg, and it took three years to produce them.
Question 23: In the hundred years between 1450 and 1550, printing presses were set up in most countries of _____.
Question 24: The second half of the fifteenth century saw _____ million copies of printed books flooding the markets in Europe.
Question 25: This shift from hand printing to mechanical printing led to the print _____.
Question 26: With the printing press, a new reading _____ emerged.
Question 27: Printing reduced the _____ of books.
Question 28: Before the age of print, books were not only expensive but they could not be produced in sufficient _____.
Question 29: Printers began publishing popular ballads and folk tales, and such books would be profusely illustrated with _____.
Question 30: Oral culture thus entered print and printed material was orally _____.
