Banned Books Week 2012 Contest for Teens Survey

1. Thanks for taking the Banned Books Week Online Challenge for Teens! With correct answers and your email (not required if you just want to take it without a raffle entry), you could win an iPod shuffle! Please provide us with your email address where you can best be contacted.

Thanks for taking the Banned Books Week Online Challenge for Teens! With correct answers and your email (not required if you just want to take it without a raffle entry), you could win an iPod shuffle! Please provide us with your email address where you can best be contacted.

2. Esteemed YA author Ellen Hopkins is continuously banned for her novels in verse. Which was her first banned YA title for drugs, offensive language and sexually explicit content?

Esteemed YA author Ellen Hopkins is continuously banned for her novels in verse. Which was her first banned YA title for drugs, offensive language and sexually explicit content? Triangles

Fallout

Crank

Identical

3. According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer was frequently challenged in 2010 for which of the following reasons:

According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer was frequently challenged in 2010 for which of the following reasons: religious viewpoint

violence

nonsense

religious viewpoint and nonsense

religious viewpoint and violence

4. Which book was banned during the civil war period due to its anti-slavery content?

Which book was banned during the civil war period due to its anti-slavery content? North and South by John Jakes

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The March by E. L. Doctorow

5. What Bay Area city's Board of Education banned Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane's memoir of growing up in extreme poverty in South Africa, for its description of a scene involving boy prostitution?

What Bay Area city's Board of Education banned Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane's memoir of growing up in extreme poverty in South Africa, for its description of a scene involving boy prostitution? San Francisco

San Ramon

Novato

Burlingame

6. Which of these children’s books was challenged for the theme of pacifism?

Which of these children’s books was challenged for the theme of pacifism? Ferdinand (1929)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Pacific Heights by Paul Harper

Ain’t gonna study war no more: The story of America’s Peace seekers by Milton Meltzer

7. In 1977, the Illinois Police Association urged Librarians to remove the children’s book, “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” from library shelves because the author, William Steig, had depicted the story’s police officers as pigs.

In 1977, the Illinois Police Association urged Librarians to remove the children’s book, “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” from library shelves because the author, William Steig, had depicted the story’s police officers as pigs. True

False

8. Thanks for taking the challenge! If your answers are correct, you will be entered in the drawing. You will be contacted by October 16th if you won! May we contact you about other library programs?

Thanks for taking the challenge! If your answers are correct, you will be entered in the drawing. You will be contacted by October 16th if you won! May we contact you about other library programs? yes