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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 book containing rape, slavery and murder did Karen complain about to Moore?
(a) The Holy Bible.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) Gone with the Wind.

2. What do Luke and Barney see a lack of at the review hearing?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Students.
(c) Parents.
(d) Women.

3. 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.

4. 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 offering her a pay raise.
(d) By describing it as a kind and compassionate act.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What arrangement was made so that Karen could leave her job on beneficial terms?

3. What does Luke imagine happening to the library?

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

5. What did Karen warn she might do which spurred Principal Moore to threaten to fire her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Reuben Foster doing in his office at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

8. Outline Steve Turney's speech in support of "Huckleberry Finn".

9. Why does Luke's comment that Huck should be taken out and shot enrage Carl McLean?

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

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