Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: ONCE BANNED BOOKS

Name the once-banned book. (e.g., This William Golding novel was banned for its language and violence. Answer: "Lord of the Flies.")

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Banned for its depiction of the behavior of Scarlett O'Hara and the freed slaves.

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2. This Mark Twain classic was banned for the liberal use of racial slurs.

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3. This J.D. Salinger novel, noted for its themes of alienation, is a critique of superficiality in society.

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GRADUATE LEVEL

4. This Harper Lee novel is about a white lawyer's defense of a Black man against a false rape.

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5. The protagonist is a literary scholar who writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert.

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6. This George Orwell novel was banned for being pro-communist and containing sexual content.

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PH.D. LEVEL

7. This Ken Kesey book was banned for violence, sexual content and profanity.

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8. This Aldous Huxley novel is set in the future where people have no personal freedom.

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9. This Alice Walker book was banned for its sexual content, situations of abuse and domestic violence.

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ANSWERS: 1. "Gone With the Wind." 2. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." 3. "The Catcher in the Rye." 4. "To Kill a Mockingbird." 5. "Lolita." 6. "1984." 7. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." 8. "Brave New World." 9. "The Color Purple."

SCORING:

18 points -- congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points -- honors graduate; 10 to 14 points -- you're plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points -- you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points -- enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points -- who reads the questions to you?

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