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1. What is meant by subscription publishing?
2. What does a publisher understand by a 'double-decker' ?
3. How does a chrestomathy differ from a normal anthology?
4. False or True: In contrast to a preface, a foreword is usually an introductory piece by somebody other than the author of the book itself ?
5. What (most accurately) does the Roman-Catholic Church mean by its 'imprimatur'?
6. What was the term used in the former Soviet Union for articles and books that could not gain approval from the authorities because of questionable content, and therefore circulated in typescript only?
7. Publishers and censors have always been at odds with each other. Even in the 20th century various books , which later were accepted by the critics as masterpieces, were at first forbidden by 'the authorities'. Which of these was the most recent case?
8. Efforts to 'clean up' existing texts have been frequent as well. There were the school versions of classic masterpieces 'ad usum delphini' (meaning expurgated). But the best-known case is certainly Thomas Bowdler's 'purged' Shakespeare edition. Under what title was it published?
9. In general, one can say that censorship is no longer a problem of the Western World, or at least not in the way it was a few centuries ago. In general, one can say that authors of subversive books fared worse than those of erotica. Which of these authors was sent to prison for two years and fined 1,000 pounds for writing a pamphlet against 'flogging in the army'?
10. Let's end on a lighter note: What's the correct term for a small ornamental design on a blank page in a book, occurring especially at the beginning or end of chapters ?
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