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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Reuben Foster tell Principal Moore to share the School Board's decision with?
(a) No one.
(b) The media.
(c) The George Mason faculty.
(d) Nora and Deirdre.

2. How does Principal Moore say the school will look if the article is published?
(a) Out of control.
(b) Well-disciplined.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Heroic.

3. What happens to the immoral characters in Dickens' story?
(a) They are shunned socially.
(b) They receive punishments befitting their behavior.
(c) They experience enlightenment.
(d) They triumph in spite of their crimes.

4. What book containing rape, slavery and murder did Karen complain about to Moore?
(a) Gone with the Wind.
(b) The Holy Bible.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

5. What is Reuben Foster doing at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Composing a letter to Deirdre Fitzgerald.
(b) Reading through "Huckleberry Finn".
(c) Speaking with Carl McLean.
(d) Role-playing conversations.

6. What does Kate suggest of Barney to hurt his feelings?
(a) That he is a male chauvenist.
(b) That he is a self-hating Jew.
(c) That he is a phoney.
(d) That he is a racist.

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

8. What does Kate say Gordon should not have to be reminded of in class?
(a) The Huckleberry Finn controversy.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Sexism.

9. Who argues with Principal Moore about the publishing of the Salters Interview at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) Barney and Maggie.
(b) Carl McLean.
(c) Deirdre Fitzgerald.
(d) Kate.

10. Who does Principal Moore have a telephone conversation with at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Nora Baines.
(b) Maggie Crowley.
(c) A member of the school board.
(d) Carl McLean.

11. What does Moore ask Deirdre to do with the library's copies of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Hide them in a closet.
(b) Mail them back to their publisher.
(c) To put them under her desk.
(d) Bring them to his office.

12. Who recants their original vote to ban Huckleberry Finn in a newspaper editorial?
(a) Matthew Griswold.
(b) Reuben Foster.
(c) Sandy Wicks.
(d) Carl McLean.

13. What did the Governor of Georgia do in the story Lomax told?
(a) The Govenor overturned a ban on "Huckleberry Finn."
(b) The Govenor abused his power to make positive changes.
(c) The Govenor restricted the freedom of the press.
(d) The Govenor attempted to have books supporting integration burned.

14. What does Nora say is actually tried when a book is on trial?
(a) The arts.
(b) The imagination, free-speech and feeling of its author.
(c) The values of the American public.
(d) Those individuals who have read and found value in the book.

15. What does Principal Moore tell Deirdre to do if a student asks for Huckleberry Finn?
(a) To tell them to get it from the town library.
(b) To give them a copy of the book.
(c) To tell them it is out.
(d) To give them detention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Griswold suggest should happen with the book?

2. Why doesn't Steve Turney object to staying in the class?

3. What does Barney state that no one should have the right to do?

4. Who do Evelyn Kantrow and Stanley Lomax represent on the committee?

5. What does Barney offer Principal Moore should his article be published?

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