Time Left: 600 sec

1. Who was Menocchio, executed for his heretical ideas?

2. Which scholar expressed fear that too many books would harm scholarship?

3. By the 18th century, literacy rates in some parts of Europe were as high as:

4. What were cheap pocket-size books sold by travelling pedlars in England called?

5. What were low-priced French books bound in cheap blue covers called?

6. Which scientist’s discoveries influenced a wide circle of readers through print?

7. Which Enlightenment thinker declared, “The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress”?

8. Which revolution is often linked to the spread of print culture?

9. The writings of which two Enlightenment thinkers were widely read before the French Revolution?

10. Which type of literature mocked royalty and criticised their morality before the French Revolution?

11. In the nineteenth century, which group became an important category of readers as education became compulsory?

12. Which brothers in Germany collected folk tales that were later published for children?

13. Who were some of the best-known women novelists of the nineteenth century?

14. Which magazine in England (1832–1835) aimed primarily at the working class?

15. Who perfected the power-driven cylindrical press in the mid-nineteenth century?

16. Which press developed in the late nineteenth century could print up to six colours at a time?

17. Cheap paperback editions became common during which economic crisis?

18. India had a tradition of handwritten manuscripts on:

19. Which European missionaries first brought the printing press to Goa in the mid-sixteenth century?

20. The first Tamil book was printed in 1579 at: