Question 2 of 21

What is the most common contemporary reason books are challenged?

... Of the more than 10,000 challenges recorded in 1990 to 2010, more than 3,000 mention explicit sexual content.

Question 3 of 21

Which author has had a bounty in excess of $1 million placed on his head?

... In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offered a monetary reward to anyone who could kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses" -- a book that was percieved as insulting toward Islam.

Question 4 of 21

What book, the first in a long-lived series, was banned in Ireland in 1962?

... John Updike's "Rabbit, Run" was banned for obscenity.

Question 5 of 21

What did Alabama representative Gerald Allen suggest banning from public libraries and schools?

... Republican Gerald Allen wanted books with gay characters or story lines removed from the shelves.

Question 6 of 21

What American writer's work was burned in Nazi Germany?

... The Nazis burned Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" because of the author's socialist leanings.

Question 7 of 21

What book was banned in 1885 in Concord, Mass., for "coarse language"?

... "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was banned the year it was published -- 1885. This was just the beginning of the challenges it has faced.

Question 8 of 21

What did the Comstock Law of 1873 do?

... Among other things, the Comstock Law prohibited the mailing of "lewd, indecent, filthy or obscene" materials.

Question 9 of 21

What book could not be published in Boston in 1881 due to explicit language?

... Walt Whitman had to take the 1881 edition of "Leaves of Grass" to Philadephia to be published.

Question 10 of 21

What play was pulled from the curriculum in a New Hampshire school because a female character dressed as a boy?

... William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" was removed after a student complained about "alternative lifestyle instruction." It has since been restored for study.

Question 11 of 21

Why was "Tarzan of the Apes" removed from the Los Angeles County Public Library?

... In 1929, the Los Angeles County Public Library removed the book because of Tarzan and Jane's cohabitation.

Question 12 of 21

Whose early autobiography has faced challenges in Blue Valley, Kan., due to language and sexual explicitness?

... Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" includes passages that some have found objectionable, such as the story of her rape as an 8-year-old.

Question 13 of 21

Why did California parents say "Little Red Riding Hood" promoted drug abuse?

... Two California school districts banned a version of the book that showed Red packing a bottle of wine in her basket for grandmother.

Question 14 of 21

What book's own author attempted to get it banned?

... William Powell said he was just an angry teenager when he wrote "The Anarchist Cookbook," which contains some dangerously incorrect bomb-making instructions.

Question 15 of 21

What often-challenged book tells of a society where the state robs citizens of their free will?

... In George Orwell's "1984," a totalitarian government attempts to control the very thoughts of the people, which makes it kind of ironic that this book is often a target of censorship attempts.

Question 16 of 21

What did students Norwood, Colo., do when "Bless Me, Ultima" was removed from their classroom?

... Students held a sit-in to protest when the award-winning book was removed from their ninth-grade reading list because of its "pagan" content.

Question 17 of 21

What is the name of the group in Fayetteville, Ark., that has challenged 55 books?

... Parents Protecting the Minds of Children has accused librarians of "promoting a homosexual agenda."

Question 18 of 21

What did gay rights groups do when books about homosexuality were removed from Oklahoma public libraries?

... They donated books on the Stonewall riots and civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.

Question 19 of 21

What did an altered 2001 version of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" eliminate?

... The book removed more than 200 incidences of the "N-word" and replaced it with "slave."

Question 20 of 21

What book was banned in Toronto schools because of the illustrations?

... "Little Black Sambo," a children's story, was banned because the illustrations were thought to be racially insensitive.

Question 21 of 21

Why was "In Cold Blood" banned at a Savannah, Ga., school?

... Not surprisingly, violence was the reason Truman Capote's work of non-fiction was banned.

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