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

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

3. What are Luke, Barney and Nora doing in the library?
(a) Creating petitions to save "Huckleberry Finn".
(b) Holding a tutoring session.
(c) Waiting for the names of the review committee to be released.
(d) Researching book bannings in America.

4. What is Reuben Foster's concern about the news coverage of his town?
(a) That the town is being made to look idyllic.
(b) That it is being made to look like a backwater village.
(c) That the citizens are being made to look foolish.
(d) That the coverage is biased.

5. Who admits to ignoring Frank Sylvester and Helen Cook since the vote?
(a) Deirdre Fitzgerald.
(b) Principal Moore
(c) Maggie Crowley.
(d) Nora Baines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Steve's belief about Twain's use of the word 'nigger'?

2. Where is the school board meeting held?

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

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

5. Who does Reuben Foster tell Principal Moore to share the School Board's decision with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Maggie Crowley threaten Principal Moore as he attempts to block Barney's article from being published?

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

4. Why has Karen now decided to take part in Barney's interview and what repercussions does she face by doing so?

5. For what reason does Deirdre suggest Pride and Prejudice might be offensive?

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

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

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

9. Outline the story Stanley Lomax told about the governor of Georgia and explain its significance.

10. What rights does Ken Dickenson say he is defending when he speaks on behalf of "Huckleberry Finn"?

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