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Understanding Censorship in Literature and Media

This quiz explores the themes of censorship in literature and media, addressing significant historical and cultural contexts, as well as key figures associated with censorship.

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1 Possession of even a single samizdat manuscript such as a book by Andrei Sinyavsky was a serious crime which might involve a visit from the ________.

2 Who wrote Eyes Wide Shut?

3 When was the List of banned films?

4 Where does Slaughterhouse-Five come from?

5 Who did the music for Citizen Kane?

6 Though past photographs may have been remembered or kept, this deliberate and systematic alteration to all of history in the public mind is seen as one of the central themes of ________ and totalitarianism.

7 ________, the predominant newspaper in the Soviet Union, had a monopoly.

8 Who wrote Virgin Killer?

9 A Ballantine Books version of the book ________ which is the version used by most school classes[12] contained approximately 75 separate edits, omissions, and changes from the original Bradbury manuscript.

10 In November 2007, "Father of the Internet" ________ stated that he sees government control of the Internet failing due to private ownership.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in the 1930 Polish election, due to government censorship, opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche, because he resembled dictator Józef PiÅ‚sudski.
  • items which were "Banned in Boston" (i.e. censored) came to be seen as more sexy and attractive elsewhere.
  • the 1935 Disney cartoon Three Orphan Kittens was later censored for having negative portrayals of African Americans.
  • former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards.
  • during the opening sequence of "The Squirt and the Whale", The Simpsons addressed the controversy surrounding censorship of the South Park episode "201".
  • Rotten Sound's Murderworks album cover was censored in Europe by manufacturers in Germany who considered it too disturbing for consumers.
  • John Perlman, one of South Africa's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Czechoslovak communist censors banned the publication of the comic album Muriel a andÄ›lé.
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