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Banned and Challenged Classic Books Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 724 times
- The average score is 6 of 44
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| "Pro-communist" | 1984 | 65%
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| "Masses will revolt" | Animal Farm | 58%
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| "Contains racial slurs" | To Kill a Mockingbird | 54%
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| "Unsuitable for minors" | Lolita | 48%
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| "Undermines morality" | The Catcher in the Rye | 43%
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| "Implies that man is little more then an animal" | The Lord of the Flies | 32%
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| Five people died in riots over this book in Pakistan | Satanic Verses | 28%
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| "Anti-Business Attitude" | Of Mice and Men | 23%
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| "Objectionable" | A Clockwork Orange | 22%
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| "Language and sexual references" | The Great Gatsby | 22%
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| "Makes sex look like fun" | Brave New World | 21%
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| "Take the Lord's name in vain" | The Grapes of Wrath | 20%
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| Banned by US Customs, Australia, Japan, India, Poland, China, Ireland | Lady Chatterley's Lover | 19%
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| Refers to "whores" | Catch-22 | 17%
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| "Sexual and social explicitness" | The Colour Purple | 15%
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| Banned in England; Burned in the US | Ulysses | 15%
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| Banned in classrooms for use of racial slurs | Gone With The Wind | 11%
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| "Depiction of torture" | Slaughterhouse-Five | 11%
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| Topics of Bestiality, Racism and Sex | Beloved | 9%
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| Promotes "secular humanism" | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 8%
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| Burned for being satanic | The Lord of the Rings | 8%
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| Dubbed "Smutmobile" | Sons and Lovers | 6%
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| Banned from US Customs in 1934 | Tropic of Cancer | 6%
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| Banned in Italy for illustrating Italian retreat | A Farwell To Arms | 5%
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| Turkish editors arrested for "spreading propaganda" | For Whom The Bell Tolls | 5%
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| Burned in Nazi Bonfires (1933) | The Sun Also Rises | 5%
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| "Images of Violence" | Invisible Man | 4%
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| Found obscene in US Superior Court (1965) | Naked Lunch | 4%
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| "Sexual explicitness" | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 4%
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| Banned in East Germany for being facist; Burned in Nazi Germany for being Socalist | The Jungle | 4%
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| "Filthy, trashy sex novel" | A Separate Peace | 3%
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| Caused legislation to be put forward to ban "library materials that promote the gay lifestyle" | Brideshead Revisited | 3%
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| Homosexual themes | In Cold Blood | 3%
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| "Unnecessarily violent" | Native Son | 3%
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| "Repulsive" | Song of Solomon | 3%
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| Banned in South Africa 1979 | Sophie's Choice | 3%
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| Banned in Italy, Yugoslavia and Nazi Germany | The Call of the Wild | 3%
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| "Referring to Abortion" | As I Lay Dying | 2%
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| "Deals with low love affairs" | An American Tragedy | 1%
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| Challenged in US District Court in 1976 | Cat's Cradle | 1%
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| Themes of masturbation | Go Tell It On The Mountain | 1%
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| Restricted to High School students with parental permission due to "promiscuity" | Rabbit, Run | 1%
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| Published in 1899, banished for decades | The Awakening | 1%
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| Banned in Canada and Australia in 1949 | The Naked and Dead | 0%
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