October 13, 2026

In the 1990s, school districts in both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia tried to remove this American novel from their teaching curricula. In 2009, a secondary school in Toronto also dropped it from grade 10 over complaints about its language. Which Harper Lee novel of racial injustice in the Deep South?

A The Jungle Book
B The Scarlet Letter
C To Kill a Mockingbird
D A Streetcar Named Desire

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia both saw school districts try to pull Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in the 1990s. The same book was removed from a Toronto school's grade 10 curriculum in August 2009 over language complaints.

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