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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Harry Peak deposed for the joint cases of his suit and the city's suit?
(a) June 8, 1988.
(b) July 7, 1988.
(c) May 17, 1988.
(d) August 30, 1988.

2. In Chapter 22, how many reference librarians were there?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

3. How many gallons of water seeped out when McDonnell Douglas processed the first books?
(a) 600.
(b) 750.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 800.

4. When did Harry sue the City of Los Angeles?
(a) January 1988.
(b) August 1988.
(c) July 1988.
(d) March 1988.

5. When was Teen'Scape, the teen section of the library, inaugurated?
(a) April 2000.
(b) May 2000.
(c) February 2000.
(d) March 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, how long had Pasquineli been a librarian at Central?

2. According to a 2010 survey, how many Americans used one of the country's 17,078 public libraries and bookmobiles in the course of the year?

3. When was ground broken for the new library wing?

4. Where did Orlean attend an international gathering about libraries in the twenty-first century with the theme of "Rethink" (293)?

5. How many people were killed by the Sylmar Earthquake?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Althea Warren have to economize when she was city librarian?

2. What was the interior of the new library building like?

3. How successful was the book-drying project to restore the Central Library collection?

4. What did Orlean observe when she visited the reference section on a Monday morning?

5. At the time the book was written, what storytimes were offered in the Children's Department, and how was attendance?

6. When was a teen section opened at the library, and what was it like?

7. What was the tomb like that Lee Lawrie designed for Bertram Goodhue?

8. How did the reference librarians attempt to handle questions in the department?

9. In the 1960s, what measures were taken because of the building's fragile electrical system?

10. Who became Harry's lawyer and why?

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