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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Deirdre remind Moore he should be respectful of?
(a) The influence he has on the students.
(b) Her role as librarian.
(c) The literary career of Mark Twain.
(d) The procedures of the school.

2. What does the committee decide of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) To provide it to senior students only.
(b) To censor certain chapters of the book.
(c) To ban it from required reading lists.
(d) To teach it only to white students.

3. 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 give them detention.
(d) To tell them it is out.

4. 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.

5. What are Reuben Fosters personal feelings for Principal Moore?
(a) Foster distrusts Principal Moore.
(b) Foster respects Principal Moore.
(c) Foster thinks Principal Moore is funny.
(d) Foster dislikes Principal Moore.

6. What is the outcome of the board's vote?
(a) The vote is split and the committee is dissolved.
(b) Huckleberry Finn is banned from the school.
(c) Principal Moore loses his job.
(d) Huckleberry Finn is kept free from restrictions.

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

8. How does Principal Moore try to convince Deirdre to remove the books from the library?
(a) By threatening her job.
(b) By expressing that it's for the good of the school.
(c) By describing it as a kind and compassionate act.
(d) By offering her a pay raise.

9. What does Kate believe educational institutions should guide students on?
(a) The difference between right and wrong.
(b) Social interactions.
(c) The media students are exposed to.
(d) Their religious practices.

10. What organization has also filed a complaint against the book?
(a) The Organization for Educational Morality.
(b) Christians for American Schools.
(c) The American Education League.
(d) Parents for Moral Schools.

11. 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.

12. What does Mr. Dennis claim Jim and Huck's nudity in the novel suggests?
(a) Innocence and purity.
(b) The author was a social deviant.
(c) A sense of freedom.
(d) Homosexuality.

13. What does Barney want printed next to his article?
(a) A photo of Mark Twain.
(b) An illustration of Huckleberry Finn.
(c) A photo of Principal Moore.
(d) A photo of Karen Salter.

14. What did Karen warn she might do which spurred Principal Moore to threaten to fire her?
(a) Return any 'removed' books to the shelves.
(b) Go to the media.
(c) Report him for incompetence.
(d) Burn down the library.

15. What book does Kate cite as not possibly offensive to anyone?
(a) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) Vanity Fair.
(d) Goodnight, Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recants their original vote to ban Huckleberry Finn in a newspaper editorial?

2. After local press publicizes the issues at the school, who begins to show interest in the story?

3. What does Nora ask Griswold?

4. What do Luke and Barney see a lack of at the review hearing?

5. What does Kate say is the only way to fight a lie?

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