Print Culture in the Modern World

What is the significance of print culture in the modern world?

• It has no impact on society

• It has led to the spread of new ideas and knowledge

• It has decreased literacy rates

• It has increased the power of the monarchy

When did the earliest kind of print technology develop?

• AD 594

• AD 768-770

• AD 868

• AD 1430s

What was the impact of the spread of technology on social lives and cultures?

• No impact at all

• It led to the decline of social lives and cultures

• It changed social lives and cultures

• It increased illiteracy rates

Who developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s?

• Johann Gutenberg

• Isaac Newton

• Marco Polo

• Voltaire

What was the impact of print culture on the French Revolution?

• It decreased the literacy rates

• It popularized the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers

• It led to the strengthening of the monarchy

• It had no impact on the revolution

What was the impact of print culture on children, women, and workers in the nineteenth century?

• It had no impact on them

• It led to a decrease in literacy rates

• It made them more important categories of readers

• It led to the decline of primary education

What was the significance of the children's press set up in France in 1857?

• It led to a decrease in the popularity of children's literature

• It published new works as well as old fairy tales and folk tales for children

• It published works only for adults

• It had no significance

What did the Grimm Brothers do in Germany in the nineteenth century?

• They discouraged the reading of folk tales

• They had no impact on literature

• They wrote new stories for children

• They compiled traditional folk tales gathered from peasants

What impact did print have on rural folk tales?

• It had no impact on them

• It led to a decrease in their popularity

• It led to the disappearance of rural folk tales

• It recorded old rural folk tales in a new form

What was the common conviction about books in the mid-eighteenth century?

• They were not important for the society

• They led to a decline in intellectual development

• They were a means of spreading progress and enlightenment

• They had no impact on society