PRINT CULTURE AND MODERN WORLD

Gap-fill exercise

  
Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
1. is a parchment made from the skin of animals.

2.Skilled persons who used to write manuscript for the publishers were called .

3.Johann Gutenberg developed the first known printing press at , Germany in the 1430s.

4. are historical accounts or folk tales in the form of verses which were sung or recited.

5. are places where people gather to drink alcohol, to eat food and meet friends and exchange news.

6. were the beliefs which do not follow the accepted teachings of the Church.

7. is an annual publication giving astronomical data, information about the movement of the sun and moon, timing of full tides and eclipse etc.

8.Chapbooks were pocket size books that were sold by travelling pedlars called .

9.‘’ were low priced books, printed on cheap paper and bound in blue cover in France.

10. is a system of governance where an individual exercises absolute power without any legal and constitutional checks.