The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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) Women.
(b) Students.
(c) Parents.
(d) Teachers.

2. What do Barney, Luke, Gordon and Kate do during lunchtime?
(a) Try to find more potentially controversial books in the library.
(b) Try to get students to attend the review meeting.
(c) Debate the freedom of the press.
(d) Have some pizza.

3. What does Moore claim in his local TV interview?
(a) That the article is 100% untrue.
(b) That he will be suing Barney and his family.
(c) That he never considered preventing Barney's article from being published.
(d) That he is proud of Barney for his journalistic skill.

4. What does Barney say will happen when his story is published?
(a) Principal Moore will be fired.
(b) Karen Salter will be a heroine.
(c) He will be expelled from school.
(d) The "Huckleberry Finn" issue will be quickly settled.

5. What does Nora feel should never occur?
(a) Books being put on trial.
(b) Parents interfering in the classroom.
(c) Teachers going unchallenged.
(d) Students walking out of class.

6. What does Luke question Barney about in regards to the school paper?
(a) Why there is so much coverage of the "Huckleberry Finn" controversy.
(b) Why he would want to work for it.
(c) Why he did not write any stories about the previous year's censorship issue.
(d) Why he can't find a copy to read.

7. What has Deirdre heard some people described as worse than books that degrade minorities?
(a) Books that glorify war.
(b) Books that degrade women.
(c) Badly written books.
(d) Books with no minorities at all.

8. What does Reuben Foster state the Board will have a session to review?
(a) Additional books from the school library.
(b) Barney's newspaper article.
(c) The terms of Karen Salter's deal with Principal Moore.
(d) Principal Moore's censorship policies in the past.

9. What does Steve Turney believe about many of the individuals who have complained about Huckleberry Finn?
(a) That they have carefully studied the book.
(b) That they have not read the book.
(c) That they are overreacting.
(d) That they are villainizing Mark Twain.

10. At the end of the chapter, what does Barney proclaim is now a personal issue for him?
(a) Racism.
(b) The running of the school paper.
(c) The "Huckleberry Finn" controversy.
(d) The First Amendment.

11. What does Moore commend Barney on?
(a) For attending the review hearing.
(b) For his balanced presentation of the issues in the school paper.
(c) For his perfect score on a test.
(d) For his interest in school activities.

12. Who do Evelyn Kantrow and Stanley Lomax represent on the committee?
(a) Teachers.
(b) The community.
(c) Students.
(d) Parents.

13. Who admits to ignoring Frank Sylvester and Helen Cook since the vote?
(a) Deirdre Fitzgerald.
(b) Principal Moore
(c) Maggie Crowley.
(d) Nora Baines.

14. What does Moore say of his past with Karen Salter?
(a) That she was right.
(b) That she misunderstood the issues between them.
(c) That she took advantage of the situation.
(d) That she blackmailed him.

15. A teacher at the school has filed a complaint against the book for what reason?
(a) Drug and alcohol abuse.
(b) Religious intolerance.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the immoral characters in Dickens' story?

2. What does Barney want printed next to his article?

3. Who is Steve Turney?

4. What does Barney's father say often comes of those who avoid the issues when pressed for details?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 11, some students object to staying in what sort of class?

(see the answer keys)

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