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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many stories tall was Central Library?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

2. How many documents and manuscripts was the Library of Alexandria supposed to have contained?
(a) Half a million.
(b) 850,000.
(c) 900,000.
(d) A quarter million.

3. After the membership fee was abolished, how many people were cardholders?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 20,000.

4. How many libraries were in Los Angeles in Chapter 1?
(a) 69.
(b) 84.
(c) 72.
(d) 91.

5. How many counts of arson and murder was Glendale fire captain John Leonard Orr charged with?
(a) 60 counts of arson and 9 counts of murder.
(b) 55 counts of arson and 7 counts of murder.
(c) 72 counts of arson and 11 counts of murder.
(d) 40 counts of arson and 4 counts of murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair did Harry Peak have?

2. How many books did the shipping department at Central move around Los Angeles five days a week?

3. How many of Harry's siblings graduated from high school?

4. During the time that Lydia Prescott ran the library, to how many books did the collection grow from an initial number of 12,000?

5. When did Gene Scott, a pastor of the Westcott Christian Center buy a 4,000 seat auditorium that used to belong to the Church of the Open Door?

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