Question 1

1 pts

Through which format does Amazon supply some of its smallest-selling titles?

Group of answer choices

audiobooks

e-books

print on demand

email

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Question 2

1 pts

What was the earliest form of writing?

Group of answer choices

ideographs

pictographs

hieroglyphics

emojis

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Question 3

1 pts

Although some big publishers have suffered a minor decline in e-book sales, they have made up for it with increased sales ______.

Group of answer choices

magazines

iPads

banned books

audiobooks

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Question 4

1 pts

Which media giant bought out two top publishers within the past thirty years?

Group of answer choices

Bertelsmann

Random House

Penguin

RCA

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Question 5

1 pts

The goal for which publication was finding the origin of every word in the English language?

Group of answer choices

the New Testament

Oxford English Dictionary

The Whole Booke of Psalmes

Poor Richard's Almanack

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Question 6

1 pts

Scriptoria was an early typeface designed by Gutenberg.

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True

False

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Question 7

1 pts

Gutenberg's invention of movable type led to the world's first mass media.

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True

False

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Question 8

1 pts

Penny press newspapers, magazines, and cheaply produced books helped spread American mass culture throughout the ______.

Group of answer choices

seventeenth century

eighteenth century

nineteenth century

twentieth century

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Question 9

1 pts

Which type of books were about women conquering problems through faith and good morals, often concluding upper-middle-class homes?

Group of answer choices

serial novels

domestic novels

trade books

dime novels

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Question 10

1 pts

What was the religious ruling placed on Salman Rushdie that called for his death?

Group of answer choices

blasphemy

executive order

fatwa

religious mandate

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Question 11

1 pts

College faculty members require that books be within a specific price bracket when selecting textbooks to use for a course.

Group of answer choices

True

False

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Question 12

1 pts

The first printing press in the New World was set up in ______ in 1539.

Group of answer choices

Massachusetts

New York City

Philadelphia

Mexico City

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Question 13

1 pts

______ was an important newspaper, magazine, and book publisher in colonial and revolutionary America.

Group of answer choices

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Benjamin Franklin

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

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Question 14

1 pts

An extremely controversial novel that Muslims found blasphemously offensive in the late 1980s was written by ______.

Group of answer choices

Salman Rushdie

Mark Twain

Kurt Vonnegut

Sherry Jones

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Question 15

1 pts

The most famous ancient library is ______.

Group of answer choices

the library at Lagash

at St. Catherine's Monastery

the Library of Congress

the Alexandrian Library

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Question 16

1 pts

What author paved the way for contemporary fantasy literature?

Group of answer choices

Judy Blume

Stephen King

J. K. Rowling

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Question 17

1 pts

Which invention allowed compositors to type at a keyboard instead of hand-picking each letter?

Group of answer choices

Gutenberg's type mold and printing press

the steam-powered rotary press

the Mergenthaler Linotype

the typewriter

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Question 18

1 pts

Which type of books are considered commercial, mass market fiction, and non-fiction?

Group of answer choices

textbooks

trade books

dime novels

serial novels

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Question 19

1 pts

Prior to the development of Gutenberg's printing press, there were no books published.

Group of answer choices

True

False

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Question 20

1 pts

Which writing system portrays abstract symbols that stand for an object or idea?

Group of answer choices

ideographs

pictographs

phonography

alphabets