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Autobiographies That Have Been Banned or Controversial

Autobiographies That Have Been Banned or Controversial

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its explicit sexual content?

  1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  2. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  3. My Life and Work by Henry Ford
  4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the Soviet Union for its criticism of the government?

  1. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  3. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  4. The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in China for its portrayal of the Cultural Revolution?

  1. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
  2. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  3. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  4. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in India for its portrayal of the caste system?

  1. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
  2. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  4. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in South Africa for its criticism of the apartheid regime?

  1. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  2. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  3. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  4. No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in Iran for its portrayal of the Iranian Revolution?

  1. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  4. The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in Turkey for its portrayal of the Armenian Genocide?

  1. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
  2. The Promise by Taner Akcam
  3. Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian
  4. Ravished Armenia by Aurora Mardiganian
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in Israel for its portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

  1. My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
  2. The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
  3. The Occupation of the West Bank by Meron Benvenisti
  4. The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United Kingdom for its portrayal of the British Empire?

  1. The Empire Strikes Back by Salman Rushdie
  2. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  3. Shame by Salman Rushdie
  4. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its portrayal of the American Civil War?

  1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  2. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  3. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
  4. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its portrayal of the American Indian Wars?

  1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  2. The Trail of Tears by John Ehle
  3. The Indian Removal Act by Andrew Jackson
  4. The Battle of Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its portrayal of the Vietnam War?

  1. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  2. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
  3. The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
  4. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its portrayal of the Iraq War?

  1. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
  2. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
  3. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
  4. The Long Road Home by Martha Raddatz
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its portrayal of the War on Terror?

  1. The Guantanamo Diaries by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
  2. My Guantanamo Diary by Murat Kurnaz
  3. The Torture Report by the Senate Intelligence Committee
  4. The Drone Papers by The Intercept
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which autobiography was banned in the United States for its portrayal of the Black Lives Matter movement?

  1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  2. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  3. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  4. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
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