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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do Luke and Barney see a lack of at the review hearing?
(a) Parents.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Women.
(d) Students.
2. What happens to the immoral characters in Dickens' story?
(a) They triumph in spite of their crimes.
(b) They experience enlightenment.
(c) They receive punishments befitting their behavior.
(d) They are shunned socially.
3. In class, how does Barney describe "Huckleberry Finn" to Gordon?
(a) As a great work of American literature.
(b) As a book about two men who care for each other.
(c) As unintentionally offensive.
(d) As a story that transcends racial issues.
4. Who does Principal Moore have a telephone conversation with at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) A member of the school board.
(b) Carl McLean.
(c) Nora Baines.
(d) Maggie Crowley.
5. Who do Evelyn Kantrow and Stanley Lomax represent on the committee?
(a) Parents.
(b) Students.
(c) Teachers.
(d) The community.
6. Who, by law, is prevented from controlling the school newspaper?
(a) The school authorities.
(b) The teaching staff.
(c) The government.
(d) The students.
7. What does Maggie suggest might happen if Barney offends Principal Moore?
(a) Principal Moore might interfere with his college applications.
(b) Barney might be suspended.
(c) Principal Moore might take legal action.
(d) Barney might be removed from the school newspaper staff.
8. What does Kate say is the only way to fight a lie?
(a) By getting the media on your side.
(b) With legal action.
(c) Not to let it infect people in the first place.
(d) By shouting the truth.
9. What does Luke question Barney about in regards to the school paper?
(a) Why he can't find a copy to read.
(b) Why there is so much coverage of the "Huckleberry Finn" controversy.
(c) Why he would want to work for it.
(d) Why he did not write any stories about the previous year's censorship issue.
10. Luke's comment that they should just take Huck out and shoot him is seen as proof of what by Carl McLean?
(a) That the novel inspired violence.
(b) That white students are insensitive to black issues.
(c) That young people lack respect.
(d) That high school students are not mature enough to understand the novel.
11. What does Barney state that no one should have the right to do?
(a) Force a person to read a book.
(b) Stop someone else from reading a specific book.
(c) Criticize the words authors choose to use.
(d) Scrutinize another person's book selections.
12. What area is it decided copies of "Huckleberry Finn" should be moved to?
(a) The restricted shelves.
(b) The librarian's desk.
(c) The "American Classics" shelf.
(d) A glass display case.
13. What does the committee decide of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) To teach it only to white students.
(b) To censor certain chapters of the book.
(c) To provide it to senior students only.
(d) To ban it from required reading lists.
14. What does Moore claim in his local TV interview?
(a) That the article is 100% untrue.
(b) That he is proud of Barney for his journalistic skill.
(c) That he never considered preventing Barney's article from being published.
(d) That he will be suing Barney and his family.
15. What does Barney say will happen when his story is published?
(a) The "Huckleberry Finn" issue will be quickly settled.
(b) Karen Salter will be a heroine.
(c) He will be expelled from school.
(d) Principal Moore will be fired.
Short Answer Questions
1. What advice does Karen give Barney on his article?
2. At the end of the chapter, what does Barney proclaim is now a personal issue for him?
3. Who admits to ignoring Frank Sylvester and Helen Cook since the vote?
4. What book does Kate cite as not possibly offensive to anyone?
5. What does Nora Baines walk into the library carrying?
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