Banned Books Facts

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Question 1

Which annual awareness campaign, founded in 1982 by the American Library Association, celebrates the freedom to read challenged literature?

Question 2

What 1953 Ray Bradbury dystopian masterpiece depicts a future society where authoritarian firemen burn outlawed books?

Question 3

Which 1960 Harper Lee Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial injustice in Maycomb, Alabama, has frequently faced school bans?

Question 4

Which landmark 1982 US Supreme Court case established that school boards cannot remove library books simply because they dislike the ideas?

Question 5

What 1922 modernist masterpiece by James Joyce was banned for obscenity in the United States until a landmark 1933 federal court decision?

Question 6

Which beloved children's picture book about two male penguins raising an egg in Central Park Zoo has been one of the most challenged books?

Question 7

Which Nobel laureate's 1970 debut novel The Bluest Eye has frequently faced removal from school curricula across the country?

Question 8

What papal list of banned heretical literature was established by Pope Paul IV in 1559 and enforced for four centuries until 1966?

Question 9

Which 1857 French realist novel by Gustave Flaubert led to the author being prosecuted for offending public and religious morality?

Question 10

Which British publisher won a historic 1960 obscenity trial for publishing D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback?

Which annual awareness campaign, founded in 1982 by the American Library Association, celebrates the freedom to read challenged literature?