Banned books

It's the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, celebrating the freedom to read. Have you been exercising that freedom? Find out with our quiz on the books that censors have sat on

Censorship
  1. 1. According to the ALA, what was the book most frequently requested for removal from their shelves in 2007 (it also topped the list of “challenged” titles in 2006)?

  2. 2. “Sexual intercourse began/ In nineteen sixty-three /(Which was rather late for me) /Between the end of the Chatterley ban /And the Beatles' first LP.” Lines from whose memories of a more repressive era?

  3. 3. Who was the ALA’s most frequently “challenged” author of 2007?

  4. 4. Which children’s author, whose books about adolescence are often “challenged”, is a prominent figure in the anti-censorship movement?

  5. 5. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell’s classic Autobiography of a Horse has not always been popular everywhere. In which of these countries was it banned, and why?

  6. 6. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was banned in Ireland on publication for being anti-Christian. What is the only discontented character in Huxley’s dystopia called?

  7. 7. Why was Jack London’s The Call of the Wild – about the adventures of Buck the dog – banned in Yugoslavia?

  8. 8. “I was born in 1910, in Paris. My father was a gentle, easy-going person, a salad of racial genes: a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent, with a dash of the Danube in his veins.” Which formerly banned novel are these lines taken from?

  9. 9. George Orwell’s Animal Farm was banned in the USSR for being anti-Communist. Which of these quotes does not come from the book?

  10. 10. "[The author] has attempted - it seems to me with astonishing success- to show how the screen of the consciousness with its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries as it were on a plastic palimpsest not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in a penumbral zone residua of past impressions, some recent and some drawn up by association from the domain of the subconscious.” Which novel did an American judge, whose ruling is quoted above, decide to allow into the country following a 15-year ban for obscenity?

  11. 11. Why did a UK exam board remove Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Education for Leisure from the GCSE syllabus

  12. 12. Who banned Voltaire’s Candide?

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