This task is reading a paragraph and determining if it has proper nouns in it or not. A proper noun is a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English. The answer is true if at least one proper noun is present in the sentence, false otherwise.

But for the beauty of the earlier work they might have seemed tolerable.
False

and was used there with very little variation all through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and indeed into the eighteenth.
False

These and similar founts, cast by the above firm and others,

False