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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 32/6/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2023: question 25

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 32/6/1, section C, question 25, for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q25 · 3 marks · Short answerPrint Culture and the Modern World

Examine any three effects of Print culture on the French Revolution.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 32/6/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think of Voltaire and Rousseau.

Hint 2

Who was criticised in their writings?

Hint 3

What did cartoons show about royalty?

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. Print popularised the ideas of enlightened thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, whose writings criticised tradition, superstition and despotism and argued for the rule of reason.

    1 mark

  2. Print helped debate and re-evaluation of all values, norms and institutions. It attacked the authority of the Church and the despotic power of the State, weakening a social order based on tradition and creating ideas of social revolution.

    1 mark

  3. By the 1780s, literature, cartoons and caricatures mocked the monarchy and its morality, showing the king absorbed in pleasure while common people suffered. This circulated underground and produced hostility towards the monarchy.

    1 mark

Answer: Print spread Enlightenment ideas, encouraged questioning of Church and State, and fuelled hostility to the monarchy through satirical literature.

Where the marks are

  • Spread of Enlightenment ideas of reason (1 mark)
  • Questioning of tradition, Church and State authority (1 mark)
  • Satirical literature and cartoons against the monarchy (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Print Culture and the Modern World, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 32/6/1: every question, by section.

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