Banned Books Week Quiz - 2009

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1. You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
2. Good heavens, woman! This is a war, not a garden party!
3. I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
4. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
5.  We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
6. There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where things are behind bars, and the man is outside.
7. How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.
8. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
9. Simply stated, although it's not really simple at all, my job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.
10. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
11. Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!
12. How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.
13. Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.
14. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
15. There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.
16. 'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'
17. Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.
18. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
19. Emma too would have liked to flee from life, to be borne away in the ecstasy of love's embrace.
20. Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.

1. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

2. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

3. Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling

5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

6. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

9. The Giver, Lois Lowry

10. Animal Farm, George Orwell

11. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

12. Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

13. 1984, George Orwell

14. The Lorax, Dr. Seuss

15. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

16. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

17. Watership Down, Richard Adams

18. Catcher In the Rye, J. D. Salinger

19. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

20. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne