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

2. When did Harry sue the City of Los Angeles?

3. How wide was the vacuum chamber McDonnell Douglas used to try to dry the first batch of 20,000 books?

4. When were the coffeemakers banned that librarians used in their workrooms?

5. When did librarians unionize as the Librarians' Guild?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did economics favor destroying the Goodhue Building?

4. What happened during the Sylmar Earthquake?

5. What is OverDrive?

6. What was the Hoot Owl Telephonic Reference?

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

8. Who became Harry's lawyer and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Orlean’s mother introduced her early to libraries. What was Orlean’s experience with libraries throughout her life? Why did her definition of a library change while she was researching for the book?

Essay Topic 2

Harry asked lawyer Robert Sheahen to defend him on the arson charges. Why did Harry ask Sheahen to defend him? Why was Sheahen motivated to defend Harry?

Essay Topic 3

Orlean referred to arson as a perfect crime. Why was it so difficult to solve a case of arson? Why might it be considered a perfect crime?

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