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Banned Books Week Challenge

The winner of the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING (Rentschler Goodie Bag) is Holly Bond!

We'd like to thank Holly & everyone else who participated in the 2011 Banned Books Week Challenge. Our other "A" entries--those with 20 or more correct--belonged to: Baelea Andreotta, Shannon Beatty, Roberta Campbell, Josephine Clark, Lori Clark, Emily Fuhrman, Anna Glasshagel, Jessica Heis, Jessica Irvin, & Diana Royer. Great work!

The correct answers are now listed with the questions below.

crossword puzzle

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2. Maya Angelou knew why this [blank]sang caged, but reader's wanted to keep her quiet. Correct Answer: Bird

5.Nabokov named his young female character this...a name now associated with teenage seductresses. Correct Answer: Lolita

7.Toni Morrison's [blank] Eye has been challenged for being "vulgar", "obscene", & graphic sexual scenes (including 2 rapes). Correct Answer: Bluest

8. How can something so sweet be so offensive? It's Cormier's [blank] War. Correct Answer: Chocolate

9.Banners went nuts over this word being in "The Higher Power of Lucky". Correct Answer: Scrotum

11.The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most frequently challenged books EVER, was written by this man.Correct Answer: Steinbeck

14.Just couldn't see Ralph Ellison's [blank] Man being banned for profanity. Correct Answer: Invisible

16. Harry's popular series is frequently banned for "promoting witchcraft".Correct Answer: Potter

17. On which Farm did Orwell say the "masses will revolt"? The readers sure did.Correct Answer: Animal

19. The boy with the issues in Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.Correct Answer: Holden

20. This baby penguin caused controversy for having 2 fathers.Correct Answer: Tango

21.What was Ray's last name? The guy who wrote Fahrenheit 451?Correct Answer: Bradbury

22.Vonnegut's "sexually explicit" Slaughterhouse [blank] got put on the chopping block.Correct Answer: Five

23. Upton Sinclair's socialist views caused this [blank] Book to be burned by the Nazis.Correct Answer: Jungle

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1. In what kitchen did Sendak's naked cartoon boy cause a big stir?Correct Answer: Night

3.Both Madonna & Miami Vice were popular this year, even if the novel with the same title was "too communist" for some.Correct Answer: Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)

4.The name of the dog that had too many farts for readers to handle.Correct Answer: Walter

6. Contrary to its name, folks hated the violence in this Toni Morrison book.Correct Answer: Beloved

8.A bookseller had to do time for having this kind of Orange on his shelf in 1973.Correct Answer: Clockwork

10.Some readers thought this Son (of R. Wright) had too much violence, sex & profanity.Correct Answer: Native

11.What kind of "Verses" got Salman Rushdie on a whole lotta peoples' hit lists?Correct Answer: Satanic

12.Her Tale (by Margaret Atwood) was challenged for profanity, sex & defamatory statements.Correct Answer: Handmaid

13.James Joyce wrote this LONG book, only to have it burned in the US, Ireland, England, & even Canada.Correct Answer: Ulysses

15.In what kind of a "...New World" did Huxley make promiscous sex "look like fun"?Correct Answer: Brave

18.The "n" word in Huckleberry Finn has been rewritten using what word?Correct Answer: Slave

19.What kind of Games was Collins writing to get her series on the 2010 Most Frequently Challenged list?Correct Answer: Hunger



by Dr. Radut.