Statistics for Banned and Challenged Classic Books Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"Pro-communist"	1984	64%
"Masses will revolt"	Animal Farm	55%
"Contains racial slurs"	To Kill a Mockingbird	53%
"Unsuitable for minors"	Lolita	49%
"Undermines morality"	The Catcher in the Rye	43%
"Implies that man is little more then an animal"	The Lord of the Flies	32%
Five people died in riots over this book in Pakistan	Satanic Verses	29%
"Anti-Business Attitude"	Of Mice and Men	24%
"Objectionable"	A Clockwork Orange	23%
"Makes sex look like fun"	Brave New World	21%
Banned by US Customs, Australia, Japan, India, Poland, China, Ireland	Lady Chatterley's Lover	21%
"Language and sexual references"	The Great Gatsby	21%
"Take the Lord's name in vain"	The Grapes of Wrath	19%
Refers to "whores"	Catch-22	16%
Banned in England; Burned in the US	Ulysses	16%
"Sexual and social explicitness"	The Colour Purple	15%
Banned in classrooms for use of racial slurs	Gone With The Wind	12%
"Depiction of torture"	Slaughterhouse-Five	11%
Topics of Bestiality, Racism and Sex	Beloved	8%
Promotes "secular humanism"	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	8%
Burned for being satanic	The Lord of the Rings	8%
Banned from US Customs in 1934	Tropic of Cancer	7%
Banned in Italy for illustrating Italian retreat	A Farwell To Arms	6%
Turkish editors arrested for "spreading propaganda"	For Whom The Bell Tolls	6%
Dubbed "Smutmobile"	Sons and Lovers	6%
Found obscene in US Superior Court (1965)	Naked Lunch	5%
Burned in Nazi Bonfires (1933)	The Sun Also Rises	5%
Caused legislation to be put forward to ban "library materials that promote the gay lifestyle"	Brideshead Revisited	4%
Homosexual themes	In Cold Blood	4%
"Images of Violence"	Invisible Man	4%
"Unnecessarily violent"	Native Son	4%
Banned in South Africa 1979	Sophie's Choice	4%
Banned in Italy, Yugoslavia and Nazi Germany	The Call of the Wild	4%
"Sexual explicitness"	Their Eyes Were Watching God	4%
Banned in East Germany for being facist; Burned in Nazi Germany for being Socalist	The Jungle	4%
"Filthy, trashy sex novel"	A Separate Peace	3%
"Referring to Abortion"	As I Lay Dying	3%
"Repulsive"	Song of Solomon	3%
Challenged in US District Court in 1976	Cat's Cradle	2%
Themes of masturbation	Go Tell It On The Mountain	2%
Restricted to High School students with parental permission due to "promiscuity"	Rabbit, Run	2%
Published in 1899, banished for decades	The Awakening	2%
"Deals with low love affairs"	An American Tragedy	1%
Banned in Canada and Australia in 1949	The Naked and Dead	1%