True or false on print culture
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Print technology began in East Asia.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Gutenberg first printed a book of poems.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Luther attacked practices of the Roman Church.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- The Church welcomed popular Bible reading.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Chapbooks sold for a penny to the poor.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- The press first reached India at Calcutta.
- Instructions
- Decide whether each statement is true or false.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 5 'Print Culture and the Modern World'_