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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Harry Peak deposed for the joint cases of his suit and the city's suit?
2. How many gallons of water seeped out when McDonnell Douglas processed the first books?
3. How long did Sally Buchanan, chief conservator, tell her staff it would take to rehabilitate the books and have them ready to be cataloged and returned to the shelves?
4. In Chapter 22, how long had Pasquineli been a librarian at Central?
5. Where did Orlean attend an international gathering about libraries in the twenty-first century with the theme of "Rethink" (293)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How successful was the book-drying project to restore the Central Library collection?
2. How did Althea Warren have to economize when she was city librarian?
3. What was the tomb like that Lee Lawrie designed for Bertram Goodhue?
4. What was the conclusion of investigators who first questioned Harry?
5. What happened when investigators showed librarians a photo lineup that included Harry's driver's license photo?
6. What did Orlean observe when she visited the reference section on a Monday morning?
7. What problems were there with the building's infrastructure in Chapter 20?
8. Why did economics favor destroying the Goodhue Building?
9. At the time the book was written, what storytimes were offered in the Children's Department, and how was attendance?
10. What was the interior of the new library building like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The security department was headed by David Aguirre at the time the author was researching for the book. How large was the security department? Why was it necessary to have a security department? Why did one security guard compare the guards to psychologists or priests?
Essay Topic 2
What a reader knows about events and people is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
Essay Topic 3
John Szabo became city librarian of Los Angeles in 2012. What were his contributions to the library? What did his contributions reveal about innovation?
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