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By the mid-18th century, the printing of cheap 'penny chapbooks' helped:
ABoost dictionary sales only (typical)
BLimit reading to elites
CEnd handwriting in Britain
DSpread literacy to working class English readers
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Spread literacy to working class English readers
1. NCERT discusses penny chapbooks in Britain.
2. Chapbooks — small, cheap pocket-size books — were sold by petty pedlars in 17th-18th century England.
3. They spread reading among common people, including the working class, well before universal schooling.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World", §Mass Reading ¶1_
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