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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barney want to do as an adult?
(a) Barney wants to be a librarian.
(b) Barney wants to be a researcher.
(c) Barney wants to be a writer.
(d) Barney wants to be a teacher.

2. What is Kate's opinion of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) The novel is racist and sexist.
(b) The novel is misunderstood.
(c) The novel is too difficult to understand.
(d) The novel is Kate's favorite.

3. What point does Griswold make about the Supreme Court upholding the separation of Church and state?
(a) That slavery and segregation were once upheld, too.
(b) That American will one day suffer as a result.
(c) That the Supreme Court is full of clowns.
(d) That people will support a change someday.

4. Who bounces a book off of Kate's head?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Luke.
(c) Barney.
(d) Principal Moore.

5. What organization will the lawyer invited to the debate represent?
(a) The Constitutional Rights Foundation.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) People For The American Way.
(d) The American Civil Liberties Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kent Dickenson?

2. What does Luke think of Gordon's reaction to Huckleberry Finn?

3. Deidre realizes she is late for a meeting with whom?

4. What does Barney ask Kate to make her call him crude before walking away?

5. What kind of behavior does Griswold believe freedom to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the meeting between Nora Baines and Matthew Griswold go?

2. What are some of the beliefs of Hugo Black shared by Kent Dickenson?

3. Describe Deirdre Fitzgerald.

4. What do Barney, Kate and Luke each think about Gordon's offense to Huckleberry Finn?

5. Describe the class that Maggie Crowley teaches.

6. According to Nora, what types of people have been making complaints to the school library in the past few years?

7. How does Nora react to Principal Moore asking her to pull "Huckleberry Finn" from her class?

8. How does Principal Moore attempt to calm Mr. McLean over what he finds offensive in "Huckleberry Finn"?

9. What is supposed to happen when complaints are made against books, and why hadn't it happened in the past few years?

10. What do we learn about Deirdre's previous place of employment?

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