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.

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

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

Graduate level

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

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

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

Ph.D. level

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

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.”

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