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

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

3. What has Barney arranged to meet Karen Salters for?
(a) Journalistic advice.
(b) To introduce her to Deirdre Fitzgerald.
(c) To return a book.
(d) An interview.

4. 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) Bring them to his office.
(d) To put them under her desk.

5. What does Griswold suggest should happen with the book?
(a) The book should be removed from the school.
(b) The book should only be taught to senior students.
(c) The book should be moved from required reading to suggested reading lists.
(d) The book should be freely available to students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moore claim in his local TV interview?

2. Where is the review hearing being held?

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

4. Luke's comment that they should just take Huck out and shoot him is seen as proof of what by Carl McLean?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Barney write about Principal Moore in his newspaper article?

2. What does Karen Salters tell Barney about how censorship was carried out in the school library before her departure?

3. What further complaints have been made against "Huckleberry Finn" and by whom have they been made?

4. Outline Principal Moore's arguments in trying to get Deirdre to remove "Huckleberry Finn" from the library shelves.

5. What decisions does Barney come to in regards to his article?

6. What would Matthew Griswold like to see happen to "Huckleberry Finn", and does he consider his preference censorship?

7. What results from Barney's article being published?

8. Why did Moore's request that Charles Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" be removed from the library prove to be "the last straw" for Karen Salters, and how did she respond to Principal Moore?

9. What hypocrisy does Nora Baines show in Chapter 15?

10. What is Carl McLean's official complaint against "Huckleberry Finn"?

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