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MANGADU, CHENNAI - 122.

SOCIAL OBJECTIVES TEST

Class 10 - Social Science
Time Allowed: 1 hour Maximum Marks: 30

1. Which Act provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials? [1]

a) Indian Press Act b) Vernacular Press Act

c) Registration Act d) Licensing Act

2. Raj Ravi Varma was a/an: [1]

a) Editor b) Painter

c) Novelist d) Journalist
3. Who among the following published Punjab Kesri? [1]

a) Bhagat Singh b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Balgangadhar Tilak d) B.R. Ambedkar

4. Which one of the following was the oldest Japanese book printed in 868 AD? [1]

a) Kojiki b) Diamond Sutra

c) Bible d) Kokoro
5. Who was considered the liberal colonial official? [1]

a) Benetick b) Canning

c) Thomas Macaulay d) Warren Hastings

6. Who among the following agreed to revise press laws? [1]

a) Canning b) Bentinck

c) Hastings d) Thomas Macaulay

7. The Deoband Seminary was founded in: [1]

a) 1876 b) 1927

c) 1924 d) 1867
8. The viceroy who passed the vernacular press act in 1878 was: [1]

a) Ripon b) Mayo

c) Lytton d) Curzon
9. In early nineteenth century Shamsul Akhbar was written in which one of the following languages? [1]

a) Urdu b) Arbi

c) Swahili d) Persian

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10. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested by British government after publishing which of the following poems? [1]

a) Resistance b) Maratha

c) Bande Matram d) Shivaji's Utterences

11. Assertion (A): Children became an important category of readers. [1]
Reason (R): Primary education became compulsory from the late nineteenth century.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

12. Assertion (A): Menocchio was hauled up twice and executed by the Roman Catholic Church. [1]
Reason (R): He reinterpreted the message of the Bible and formulated a view of God and Creation.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

13. Assertion (A): The first book that Gutenberg printed was the Bible. [1]
Reason (R): About 500 copies were printed and it took two years to produce them.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

14. Assertion (A): Print and popular religious literature stimulated many distinctive individual interpretations of [1]
faith even among little-educated working people.
Reason (R): Through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literacy rates went up in most parts of Europe.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

15. Study the picture and answer the question that follows: [1]

Which of the following option is correct regarding the picture?

a) It is a page from the Panchtantra book b) It is a page from the Ninety Five Theses.

c) It is a page from the oldest Japanese book d) It is a page from the traditional Chinese
- Diamond Sutra. ‘accordion book’
16. Study the picture and answer the question that follows: [1]

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 Which of the following is true regarding the cover page of The Indian Charivari?

a) The Indian Charivari was one of the many b) The Indian Charivari was one of the many
journals depicting injustice done to low journals showing passionate anger about the
caste people in India. miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu
women, especially widows.

c) The Indian Charivari was one of the many d) The Indian Charivari was one of the many
journals of caricature and satire published. journals highlighting the experiences of
women - about how women were
imprisoned at home.
17. Study the picture and answer the question that follows: [1]

Which of the following option best describes the above picture?

a) Frontispiece of Biliotheque Bleue b) Frontispiece of Penny Magazine

c) Frontispiece of Accordion Book d) Frontispiece of Chap books

18. Study the picture and answer the question that follows: [1]

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 Which of the following option is true regarding the above picture?

a) The first book he printed was the Accordion b) The first book he printed was the Diamond
Book Sutra

c) The first book he printed was the d) The first book he printed was the Bible.
Panchtantra
19. Match the following: [1]

(a) A term used to describe pocket-size books that are sold by travelling pedlars (i) Almanac

(b) A term used to describe low-priced small books printed on poor quality paper, (ii) Chapbook

(iii)
(c) An annual publication giving astronomical data, information about the movements of the
Bibliotheque
sun and moon, the timing of full tides and eclipses
Bleue

(iv) Accordion
(d) Chinese traditional book-which folded and stitched at the side
Book

20. Match the following: [1]

(a) James Augustus Hickey began to edit the Bengal Gazette. (i) 1876

(b) Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses. (ii) 1517

(c) Marco Polo, a great explorer, returned to Italy. (iii) 1780

(d) Rashsundari Debi published Amar Jiban. (iv) 1295

21. Match the following: [1]

(a) This city became the new hub of print culture. (i) Italy

(b) Edo was the ancient name of this city. (ii) Strasbourg

(c) This city had the breakthrough of the first printing press. (iii) Tokyo

(d) Menocchio, a miller belonged to this city. (iv) Shanghai

a) (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (i), (d) - (ii) b) (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i)

c) (a) - (iii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i) d) (a) - (iv), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (i)
22. Arrange the following in the correct sequence: [1]
i. Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas came out
ii. Rammohun Roy published the Sambad Kaumudi
iii. Persian newspapers were published
iv. Deoband Seminary was founded

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 a) ii, i, iii, iv b) iv, iii, ii, i

c) iv, i, iii, ii d) i, ii, iii, iv

23. Which of the following statements is correct regarding Printing Press? [1]
1. Printing press reduced the cost of books.
2. Printing press increased the cost of books.
3. Printing press has kept the prices of the books constant.

a) 1 only b) 2 and 3

c) 3 only d) 1 and 2
24. Look at the picture given below. Identify the name of the senior litterateur shown in the image and choose the [1]
correct option.

a) Lakshminath Bezbaruah b) Gangadhar Bhattacharya

c) Raja Ravi Verma d) Ram Mohan Roy

25. Correct the following statement and rewrite: [2]
(a) James Augustus Hickey said, Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one. [1]
(b) Accordion Book is the oldest printed book of Japan. [1]
26. State whether the given statement is True or False: [2]
(a) The Deoband Seminary founded in 1868. [1]
(b) Jyotiba Phule, the Maratha Pioneer of low caste protest movements wrote Gulamgiri in 1870. [1]
27. Fill in the blanks: [2]
(a) A system of governance in which absolute power is exercised by legal and constitutional checks is [1]
known as ________.
(b) Rashsundari Debi wrote her autobiography ________ which was published in 1876. [1]

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