AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
The Roman Catholic Church feared that popular reading and questioning of religious faith would spread heretical ideas and challenge its authority, so it maintained the Index of Prohibited Books from 1558 to control publishers and booksellers.
Source: Print and Dissent, Section 3.3, Chapter 5
The examiner expects you to link the cause (spread of heretical/questioning ideas through print) to the action (Index of Prohibited Books). The example of Menocchio supports this, but naming him is optional for 1 mark. Keep the answer to one line — do not elaborate on the Reformation or Luther here.