Quiz  /  Magazines: Fact or Fiction?

  • 1. 
    The earliest known magazine was German and was named Erbauliche Monaths-Unterredungen.

  • False
  • True

  • 2. 
    The first American magazine was actually called American Magazine.

  • True
  • False

  • 3. 
    Reader’s Digest was founded in 1955 by DeWitt Wallace.

  • False
  • True

  • 4. 
    The first magazines were mostly based on gossip.

  • True
  • False

  • 5. 
    Around the 1900s, less-expensive magazines began to appeal to a broader audience than the “quality” magazines before.

  • True
  • False

  • 6. 
    The first magazine in India was published not by Indians but by the British.

  • False
  • True

  • 7. 
    When the multicolor rotary press was developed in the 1890s, color magazines became common.

  • False
  • True
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