SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Test

Short answer
1.  Name one  reason printers preferred printing from metal rather than wood.

2. Name one typesetting term today that carries over from the days of letterpress printing.

Slide ID:
3. Name of work
4. Publisher
5. Decade
6. - 7. Name two reasons this looks different from medieval manuscripts  
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Possible answers but not necessarily!
block books
Caxton, William
Dream of Poliphili
Exact repetition of forms
Fraktur
Forty-two line bible
Humanist typeface
impression
Leading
Light and even tones
Manutius, Aldus
moveable type
printing press
punctuation
Rustic roman
Slugs
Textura
Upper and lower case
vertical or oblique stress
Warping and splitting
Wedgwood, Josiah
 
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Short essay question:

Q: In publications printed before the 20th century, very general images were often used over and over again to illustrate different news stories. The publisher did not create new images for each story.

How do today’s readers differ from earlier readers in terms of how  they understand news images?

A:  Today’s readers expect whatever picture runs with a news story to actually have come from that event. For example, most people assume that pictures of hurricane damage come from whatever hurricane the reporter is writing about.

But I don’t think readers today really trust the images they see. Today’s readers are more skeptical and think about how reporters often sensationalize a story by finding the very worst-looking example of storm damage. Today’s readers wouldn’t   assume the picture was exactly representative of the damage.

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A: There is a lot more detail in pictures today, because they are usually photographs instead of woodcuts. Because these images are so lifelike, and come from the actual  event, people today are influenced by news pictures. For instance, images of dead soldiers make readers hate the killers, regardless of whether they understand the complex reasons the killings occurred. 

I think readers react more strongly to images than in the past, when images were not so vivid.