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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, according to Dickenson, is the best way to fight a lie?
(a) With righteous indignation.
(b) With legal action.
(c) By telling another lie.
(d) By showing the truth simultaneously.

2. How does Barney say Kate gets her fun?
(a) By gossiping about people.
(b) By sticking pins into people.
(c) By seeing people offended.
(d) By jumping on a bandwagon.

3. Why does Griswold approve of censorship?
(a) Because Griswold realizes modern children are corrupt.
(b) Because Griswold is easily offended.
(c) Because ignorance is bliss.
(d) Because young minds should be protected from pollution.

4. What does Mr. McLean do when he arrives for his meeting with Mr. Moore?
(a) He tears pages out of a copy of the novel.
(b) He stares in surprise at the portraits on the wall.
(c) He asks that Nora join the meeting.
(d) He reads passages from the novel.

5. What is Matthew Griswold's concern about freedom?
(a) That freedom is disappearing.
(b) That freedom is less individualized.
(c) That freedom is localized.
(d) That freedom is undervalued.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be Griswold's preferred title for the debate?

2. Who is Kent Dickenson?

3. What does Nora wish to speak to Deidre about when she enters the library?

4. What organization will the lawyer invited to the debate represent?

5. What does Nora state about books in general?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the class that Maggie Crowley teaches.

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

5. What do Luke, Gordon and Barney have to say about their respective parents when it comes to "freedom"?

6. What relevance do the portraits on Principal Moore's wall have in this chapter?

7. Of what does Kate inform Barney regarding the school librarian?

8. What example does Matthew Griswold use to demonstrate that freedom has become less individualized?

9. What does Nora Baines tell Deirdre about censorship issues at the school?

10. What does Nora explain eventually happened to Mrs. Salters? What might this indicate to Deirdre?

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