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'By the seventee… (Class 10 Social Science SQP 2024-25, Q25)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Sample paper, session 2024-25 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science sample paper 2024-25: question 25

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2024-25, 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

'By the seventeenth century, as urban culture bloomed in China, the uses of print diversified'. Explain the statement by giving suitable examples.

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2024-25.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think of who besides officials used print.

Hint 2

Why would reading become a pastime in growing cities?

Hint 3

What role did women play?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. Print was no longer used only by scholar-officials. Merchants used print in everyday life to collect trade information.

    1 mark

  2. Reading became a leisure activity. The new readers preferred fiction, poetry, autobiographies, anthologies of literary masterpieces and romantic plays.

    1 mark

  3. Rich women began to read and some published their own poetry and plays. Wives of scholar-officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives.

    1 mark

Answer: In 17th-century China, print was used by merchants, spread as leisure reading and was taken up by women readers and writers.

Where the marks are

  • Merchants used print for trade information (1 mark)
  • Reading as leisure, with new genres (1 mark)
  • Women as readers and authors (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 paperSample paper 2024-25: every question, by section.

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