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Quiz about Books of Social Consciousness

Books of Social Consciousness Trivia Quiz

Some works of literature were written to raise consciousness about issues of social injustice. See what you know about five works of literature, each addressing a different issue.

A multiple-choice quiz by CellarDoor. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
CellarDoor

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
19,535

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
5

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
3 / 5

Plays
862

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 5

1. Mark Mathabane wrote this best-seller about growing up under South African apartheid. Hint

Cry, the Beloved Country

Journey to Jo'burg

Black and White

Kaffir Boy

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Question 2 of 5

2. Citing the use of racial epithets, several school districts have banned what Mark Twain novel condemning American slavery? Hint

The Prince and the Pauper

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Question 3 of 5

3. What 1962 book by Rachel Carson awakened the environmentalist movement by criticizing the use of DDT? Hint

Mother Earth

Death by DDT

Silent Spring

Green Peace

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Question 4 of 5

4. In 1999, scandal erupted over what book about Guatemalan human rights abuses, written by a woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for it? Hint

Cultural Relativity

My Land

Mi Guatemala

I, Rigoberta Menchu

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Question 5 of 5

5. Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote what first dystopian novel, criticizing the Soviet government and paving the way for George Orwell's '1984' and Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'? Hint

They

1934

How We Were Slaughtered

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Mark Mathabane wrote this best-seller about growing up under South African apartheid.

Answer: Kaffir Boy

Apartheid, ended only in 1994, was a strict system of racial segregation. Mathabane's book is moving and powerful.

2. Citing the use of racial epithets, several school districts have banned what Mark Twain novel condemning American slavery?

Answer: Huckleberry Finn

Nat Hentoff wrote a very good novel, 'The Day They Came to Arrest the Book', about the censorship struggle over 'Huckleberry Finn'.

3. What 1962 book by Rachel Carson awakened the environmentalist movement by criticizing the use of DDT?

Answer: Silent Spring

'For the first time in the history of the world,' Carson wrote, 'every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.' DDT, a pesticide, was banned soon after the appearance of her book.

4. In 1999, scandal erupted over what book about Guatemalan human rights abuses, written by a woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for it?

Answer: I, Rigoberta Menchu

Menchu was accused of fabricating parts of her moving {story;} for example, a younger brother whom she said starved to death in the fields is actually alive and well with a wife and children. Menchu responded to the accusations by saying that her book was not her story per se, but the story of the Guatemalan people as a whole.

5. Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote what first dystopian novel, criticizing the Soviet government and paving the way for George Orwell's '1984' and Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'?

Answer: We

The citizens (numbered, not named) in 'We' live in a city enclosed by a wall of glass. Chaos erupts when the protagonist, a mathematician, begins to think of himself as an individual.

Source: Author CellarDoor

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