25 True or False Questions on Print Culture and the Modern World
1. The chapter discusses the history of print starting from East Asia to Europe and India.
True
2. The earliest print technology was developed in Europe before Asia.
False
3. In China, books were printed by rubbing paper against inked woodblocks from AD 594 onwards.
True
4. The traditional Chinese 'accordion book' was printed on both sides of the sheet.
False
5. The imperial state in China was a major producer of printed material due to civil service examinations.
True
6. By the seventeenth century in China, print was used only by scholar-officials.
False
7. Western printing techniques were imported to China in the late nineteenth century.
True
8. The oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, is the Diamond Sutra.
True
9. In medieval Japan, books were expensive and scarce.
False
10. Kitagawa Utamaro was known for his contributions to ukiyo art form.
True
11. The Tripitaka Koreana consists of about 80,000 woodblocks.
True
12. Chinese paper reached Europe in the eleventh century via the silk route.
True
13. Marco Polo brought woodblock printing knowledge back to Italy in 1295.
True
14. Luxury editions in Europe were printed on cheap paper for the masses.
False
15. Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s.
True
16. Gutenberg's first printed book was a novel.
False
17. Between 1450 and 1550, about 20 million copies of printed books were produced in Europe.
True
18. The print revolution only affected the production of books and not people's lives.
False
19. Printing reduced the cost of books and created a new reading public.
True
20. Before print, common people lived in a world dominated by written culture.
False
21. Printers published popular ballads and folk tales illustrated with pictures to attract common people.
True
22. Oral culture completely disappeared after the advent of print.
False
23. The Jikji of Korea is one of the world's oldest books printed with movable metal type.
True
24. Vellum is a parchment made from plant fibers.
False
25. Gutenberg's press could print 250 sheets on one side per hour.
True
