MCQ Class 10 History Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern WorldMCQ’s For All Chapters – History Class 10th 1. Who began editing the Bengal Gazette in 1780, the first English weekly in India?Gangadhar BhattacharyaJames Augustus HickeyWilliam BoltsRammohun RoyQuestion 1 of 202. Who brought out the first Indian-owned newspaper, the Bengal Gazette (weekly)?TilakGandhiGangadhar BhattacharyaMacaulayQuestion 2 of 203. Which social reformer published the Sambad Kaumudi in 1821?TilakRammohun RoyJyotiba PhuleDayanand SaraswatiQuestion 3 of 204. Which seminary published thousands of fatwas guiding Muslim readers in everyday life?Aligarh UniversityBanaras Hindu UniversityDeoband SeminaryBombay SamacharQuestion 4 of 205. Which sixteenth-century text by Tulsidas was printed in Calcutta in 1810?RigvedaRamcharitmanasMahabharataGita GovindaQuestion 5 of 206. Which famous painter produced mythological paintings later printed for mass circulation?MonetVan GoghRaja Ravi VarmaUtamaroQuestion 6 of 207. From the 1870s, which visual form began appearing in Indian journals and newspapers?MapsCaricatures and cartoonsStone inscriptionsIllustrated manuscriptsQuestion 7 of 208. Who secretly learnt to read in Urdu despite her conservative Muslim family’s restrictions?Rashsundari DebiPandita RamabaiAn unnamed girl in north IndiaTarabai ShindeQuestion 8 of 209. Who wrote the autobiography Amar Jiban in 1876, the first full-length autobiography in Bengali?Tarabai ShindeRashsundari DebiPandita RamabaiKailashbashini DebiQuestion 9 of 2010. Which Marathi writer wrote with anger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu widows?Tarabai ShindeRammohun RoyTilakAmbedkarQuestion 10 of 2011. Which tract in Punjab taught women to be obedient wives?GulamgiriIstri Dharm VicharSacchi KavitayanAmar JibanQuestion 11 of 2012. Which area in Calcutta became famous for printing cheap popular books, including scandalous literature?Chandni ChowkBattalaBurrabazarHowrahQuestion 12 of 2013. Who wrote Gulamgiri in 1871, attacking caste discrimination?AmbedkarJyotiba PhuleTilakPeriyarQuestion 13 of 2014. Which Kanpur millworker wrote Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal in 1938?KashibabaSudarshan ChakrPhuleAmbedkarQuestion 14 of 2015. The poems of which Kanpur millworker were published as Sacchi Kavitayan?KashibabaTilakSudarshan ChakrPeriyarQuestion 15 of 2016. Which 1878 Act gave the colonial government rights to censor reports in Indian-language newspapers?Defence of India ActVernacular Press ActRowlatt ActSedition ActQuestion 16 of 2017. Which nationalist leader’s writings in Kesari led to his imprisonment in 1908?GandhiTilakNehruSubhas Chandra BoseQuestion 17 of 2018. During World War I, newspapers were forced to furnish securities under which rules?Defence of India RulesVernacular Press ActSedition Committee RulesPress Control RulesQuestion 18 of 2019. In 1942, about 90 newspapers were suppressed under which act?Rowlatt ActQuit India ActDefence of India Act (World War II)Sedition ActQuestion 19 of 2020. In 1922, Gandhi declared that the fight for Swaraj was also a fight for:Economic independenceLiberty of speech, press, and associationIndustrial developmentReligious freedomQuestion 20 of 20 Loading...
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