Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern World Assertation & Reasoning Questions Class 10th Social Science

ASSERTION AND REASON

DIRECTION : Mark the option which is most suitable :

(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is
the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is
not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.

1. Assertion : In 1517, the religious reformer Martin
   Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses criticising many
   of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic
   Church.
   Reason :,T his led to a division within the Church and
   to the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
   Ans : (a) Both assertion and reason are true and
   reason is the correct explanation of assertion. 4
   A printed cojiy of the Theses was posted on a church
   door in Wittenberg. It challenged the Church to
   debate his ideas. Luther’s writings were immediately
   reproduced in large numbers and read widely. The
   reason thus correctly justifies the assertion.
2. Assertion : The new reading culture was accompanied
   by a new technology.
   Reason : From hand printing there was a gradual shift
   to mechanical printing.
   Ans : (a) Both assertion and reason are true and
   reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
   The reason thus correctly justifies the assertion.
3. Assertion : The production of handwritten manuscripts
   could not satisfy the ever-increasing demand for books.
   Reason : Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk
   route.
   Ans : (b) Both assertion and reason are true but
   reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
   Copying was laborious, expensive and time-consuming.
   Manuscripts were fragile, awkward to handle, and
   could not be carried around or read easily. Therefore,
   their circulation remained limited. The reason does
   not explain or justify the assertion.
4. Assertion : The first book that Gutenberg printed was
   the Bible.
   Reason : About 500 copies were printed and it took
   two years to produce them.
   Ans : (c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
   About 180 copies were printed and it took three years
   to produce them. The reason is thus false.
5. Assertion : Print and popular religious literature
   stimulated many distinctive individual interpretations
   of faith even among little-educated working people.
   Reason : Through the seventeenth and eighteenth
   centuries, literacy rates went up in most parts of
   Europe,
   Ans : (b) Both assertion and reason are true but
   reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
6. Assertion : As literacy and schools spread in African
   countries, there was a virtual reading mania.
   Reason : Churches of different denominations set up
   schools in villages, carrying literacy to tribals.
   Ans : (d) Both assertion and reason are false.
   As literacy and schools spread in European countries,
   there was a virtual reading mania. Churches of
   different denominations set up schools in villages,
   carrying literacy to peasants and artisans.
7. Assertion : Children became an important category
   of readers.
   Reason : Primary education became compulsory from
   the late nineteenth century.
   Ans : (a) Both assertion and reason are true and
   reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
   The reason justifies the assertion.
8. Assertion : There was intense controversy between
   social and religious reformers and the Hindu orthodoxy
   over matters like-widow immolation, monotheism,
   Brahmanical priesthood and idolatory.
   Reason : The Deoband Seminary founded in 1867,
   published thousands upon thousands off at was telling
   Muslim readers how to conduct themselves in everyday
   lives, and explaining the meaning of Islamic doctrines.
   Ans : (b) Both assertion and reason are true but
   reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
   The reason does not justify the assertion.