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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. How old were Castro's children when she got them library cards?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. By what year had OverDrive reached the milestone of having lent one billion books?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2018.

3. 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?
(a) Almost 3 million.
(b) 7 million.
(c) Around 6 million.
(d) 9 million.

4. What was the nickname the InfoNow staff had for a woman who called for spelling and grammar help all the time?
(a) Fur.
(b) Poet.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Mags.

5. When was a man named Todd Willingham convicted of setting a fire that killed his children?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Todd Willingham executed for setting the fire that killed his children?

2. When was the first recorded instance of a bookmobile?

3. When did a visitor to the Los Angeles Public Library publish an essay imagining a time when the library would be compressed into an object the size of a suitcase?

4. In Chapter 22, how many reference librarians were there?

5. How long did it take to pour the concrete for the rotunda?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What law suits were filed after Harry was released from jail?

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

4. What happened when investigators showed librarians a photo lineup that included Harry's driver's license photo?

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

6. What was "negative corpus" (275)?

7. What was the Hoot Owl Telephonic Reference?

8. Who was Paul Bieber, and what was his opinion about the library fire?

9. What was the conclusion of investigators who first questioned Harry?

10. What was the Computer Center like at the library?

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