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1

The first true American Picture book was
A)A Pretty Little Pocket-Book by John Newbery
B)Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
C)Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
D)Clever Bill by William Nicholson
2

During the Middle Ages, most children experienced stories through
A)Manuscipts
B)Oral tales
C)Chapbooks
D)Primers
3

A "picture book" is characterized by
A)Having an illustration on each page
B)Color illustrations
C)Action in the illustrations
D)Text and pictures that work together to tell a story
4

Fairy tales were first widely published by
A)The Brothers Grimm
B)Charles Perrault
C)Mother Goose
D)Randolph Caldecott
5

These were used to teach beginning reading in the fifteenth century
A)Hornbooks
B)Chapbooks
C)Dime novels
D)Basal readers
6

William Caxton
A)Was a famous English illustrator
B)Invented moveable type
C)Wrote fairy tales during the sixteenth century
D)Set up a printing press in England in 1476
7

Literature written for children is always influenced by
A)The author's political beliefs
B)Society's attitude toward children
C)Popular media
D)The CEO of the publishing company
8

Prejudice was openly discussed in children's literature for the first time during the
A)1940s
B)1960s
C)1890s
D)1920s
9

New Realism in children's literature refers to
A)More realistic illustrations
B)The breaking of long-standing taboos in children's literature
C)A movement to ban fantasy books for children
D)Moralistic children's literature
10

One of the first books to include previously untouchable topics in children's literature, such as sex, death, and addictions, was
A)Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
B)The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
C)A Pretty Little Pocket-Book by John Newbery
D)Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver
11

In the first half of the nineteenth century, women writers wrote many books that were
A)Adventure stories for boys
B)About realistic girls
C)Moralistic and religious
D)Feminist
12

The number of children's books published annually in the United States
A)Has increased dramatically since 1880
B)Is beginning to decline rapidly
C)Has doubled in the last century
D)Fluctuates dramatically
13

This company was the first to establish movie-related books
A)Warner Brothers
B)Walt Disney
C)FOX
D)Public Broadcasting Service
14

During the first half of the twentieth century, stories written about minority cultures
A)Became more popular
B)Were widely available
C)Were written by minority authors
D)Often reflected stereotypes about the culture
15

Censorship
A)Refers to a complaint about a book's content
B)Has decreased in recent years
C)Is an attempt to have a book removed from a library
D)Efforts are limited to works of fantasy literature





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