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Print culture bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Carved block used for hand printing.
    Item
    Woodblock
  2. Clue
    Built the first-known press, 1430s.
    Item
    Gutenberg
  3. Clue
    Luther's 1517 challenge to the Church.
    Item
    95 Theses
  4. Clue
    Rome's list of banned books.
    Item
    Index 1558
  5. Clue
    Penny booklet sold by chapmen.
    Item
    Chapbook
  6. Clue
    Editor of the Bengal Gazette, 1780.
    Item
    Hickey
  7. Clue
    Calcutta area of cheap popular print.
    Item
    Battala
  8. Clue
    1878 law to censor Indian papers.
    Item
    Vernacular Act
  9. Clue
    Tilak's paper that got him jailed.
    Item
    Kesari
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation

_Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._
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