Check It Out! -- 9/30/11

Banned Books Week 2011

Banned Books Trivia Challenge -- Last Day!

Thursday's answers: Twelfth Night and Richelle Mead

Friday's Questions:

What popular non-fiction book was challenged for promoting “economic fallacies” and “…offensive references to Christianity, and biased portrayal of capitalism”?
a. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Enrich
b. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
c. Guinness Book of World Records by Antonia Cunningham, ed.
d. Handbook for Conscientious Objectors by Robert Seeley

Which of the following banned/challenged titles is a collection of 100 novellas, written in 14th century Italy and banned in the U.S. until 1931?
a. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales by Vance Randolph
c. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio
d. Arabian Nights by Anonymous

Check It Out! -- 9/29/11

Banned Books Week 2011

Banned Books Trivia Challenge

Test your knowledge with our daily trivia quiz

Wednesday's answers: Catcher in the Rye and B, Manchild in the Promised Land

Thursday's Questions:

Which of the following works by Shakespeare was removed from a high school English class on the grounds that it encouraged homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative?
a. The Merchant of Venice
b. Macbeth
c. Tragedy of King Richard II
d. Twelfth Night

What young adult author's books, both written and unwritten, are banned at a school in Texas?

Check It Out! -- 9/28/11

Banned Books Week 2011

Banned Books Week Trivia Challenge
Test your knowledge with our daily trivia quiz

Tuesday's answers: D, Innappropriated for age group and Blackhawk Down

Wednesday's questions:

What challenged book about a cynical teenager, favored by many High School students, has been described as "obscene", "unacceptable", "immoral", "anti-white", and a "filthy, filthy book"?

Bonus question:

All of the following titles have been challenged in U.S. high schools. Which one was questioned for its relevance, claiming that the students at this Oregon school have no need to understand life in a black ghetto?

a. Black Like Me

b. Manchild in the Promised Land

c. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

d. Where the Sidewalk Ends

Check It Out! -- 9-26-11

Banned Books Week 2011

Banned Books Week Trivia Challenge

Test your knowledge with our daily banned book trivia quiz.

Questions for Monday, September 26, 2011:

1. Which of these 3 frequently challenged/banned books is held by the most libraries?

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Slaughter House Five
• Catcher in the Rye

2. Which Mark Twain title was banned from a library in 1906 solely for its illustrations of a character's "Edenic costumes"?

*Answers for today's quiz will be posted here tomorrow, or stop by the reference desk in the library.

Check It Out!! -- Medical Fiction and Stories

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Medical Fiction and Stories:

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