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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 did Carl Sandburg drop by the children's story hour, play guitar, and talk about Paul Bunyan?

2. When was the ban against buildings taller than 13 stories lifted in Los Angeles?

3. When did Harry agree to take a polygraph test?

4. How long was William Amor incarcerated until his case was reviewed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Todd Wilingham, and how was he falsely accused of starting a fire?

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

5. What problems were there with the building's infrastructure in Chapter 20?

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

7. Why did economics favor destroying the Goodhue Building?

8. What fire violations were noted at the library in 1973, and why was Barton Phelps suspicious of some of the violations?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why were librarians who worked at the library at the time of the fire traumatized? What were the working conditions like after the fire? How did those conditions cause stress?

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

Althea Warren was known as a “reading evangelizer” (199). How did Warren feel about reading? How did she encourage people to read? Why was she known as a reading evangelizer or evangelist?

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