AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
Before the age of print, knowledge among common people was passed orally — through sacred texts read aloud, ballads recited, and folk tales narrated at gatherings.
Source: Print Culture and the Modern World, Section 3.1
The key phrase from the textbook is: "Common people lived in a world of oral culture." The examiner expects the word oral/orally and at least one example (ballads, folk tales, sacred texts). Avoid writing about books or literacy — that belongs to the print era.