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Grade-6 Session-1 Lesson-2 The Printing Press

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

................ brought about many changes to European society during the 15th and 16th centuries.

a)

The war

b)

The Renaissance

c)

The World War 11

2.

Many new ................................ were developed during The Renaissance .

a)

Tribes

b)

Monuments

c)

mechanical and technological innovations

3.

The most important of these innovations was the.................

a)

moveable type printing press

b)

Telescope

c)

Television

4.

With a printing press, publishers can ..........................

a)

make thousands of copies of pens in a short period of time.

b)

make thousands of copies of a book in a short period of time.

c)

reduce illiteracy

5.

Before the printing press was invented, books had to be copied by hand.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Select multiple answers.

Before a printing press making copies of a books was ....................

a)

long process

b)

there were many chances to make mistakes

c)

reduced the chance of mistakes

d)

can make thousands of copies of a book in a short period of time.

7.

With a printing press, each copy is exactly the same, so it reduced the ......

a)

chance of joy writing books and copying by hand

b)

chance of learning

c)

chance of mistakes.

8.

Book printing did not begin in Europe

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The ...................had been using wooden blocks to print since about 200 CE.

a)

Romans

b)

Chinese

c)

Japanese

10.

in 1041 CE, an inventor named .............invented what is called ‘movable type.’

a)

Galileo

b)

Xu yang

c)

Pi Sheng

11.

There are .................. in the Chinese language, mass production of texts was not very practical in China.

a)

thousands of characters

b)

thousands of Errors

c)

thousands of punctuations