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Banned Book Quiz

Posted by Theresa on September 26th, 2006 filed in Anything Goes, Book Review

In honor of Banned Book Week here is a quiz to see how much you know: Books

1. True or False: Two 1960s children’s books written by Dr. Seuss were later removed from print (and stricken from his bibliography) for questionable moral content.

2. Who is the hero of the popular book series by Dav Pilkey, which has been challenged for its “anti-family content”?

a. Wicked Wedgie Woman
b. Deputy Doo-Doo
c. Bionic Booger Boy
d. Captain Underpants

3. Ernst Zündel’s widely-banned book Did Six Million Really Die? questions whether or not what tragedy really occurred?

a. the AIDS epidemic
b. the Holocaust
c. the 2004 tsunami
d. the Great Leap Famine

4. Because the band members’ real blood was mixed with the ink, some shops refused to carry a 1977 Marvel comic book featuring what musicians?

a. KISS
b. Black Sabbath
c. Judas Priest
d. Styx

5. While nearly every library allowed the regular version, what book was rejected by many in its 1982 Reader’s Digest “condensed” version?

a. Gone with the Wind
b. The Bible
c. Mein Kampf
d. Of Mice and Men

6. True or False: Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford appeared on the American Library Association’s List of the “100 Most Frequently Challenged Books” from 1990-2000.

7. Why was an illustrated edition of Little Red Riding Hood banned in two California school districts in 1989?

a. wolf cross-dressing as grandma
b. little girl traveling alone in forest
c. little girl carrying wine to grandma
d. woodcutter attacks wolf with axe

8. What author claimed (perhaps with tongue-in-cheek) that his two most famous books were written “for adults exclusively” and that he was “distressed” when children were given access to them?

a. Mark Twain
b. Stephen King
c. Roald Dahl
d. Jack London

9. What oft-banned author made recent headlines when she had trouble boarding a plane with the only manuscript of her upcoming book?

a. J.K. Rowling
b. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
c. Judy Blume
d. Lois Lowry

10. Characters from what animated TV show are featured in the book Stormy Weather, banned in some schools due to the use of the word “stupid”?

a. The Simpsons
b. Rugrats
c. Duckman
d. Futurama

11. Officials in many elementary schools challenged Helen Piers’ How to Take Care of Your Dog because it contained what word?

a. dam
b. stud
c. spay
d. bitch

12. What children’s classic was banned for several years (until a revised edition was published) due to a chatty parrot’s remarks that were determined to be racist?