Answers To: Shhhh! It's A Library

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
© Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved

  1. False. Folger houses the world's leading collection of works by and about Shakespeare.

  2. C.

  3. True

  4. True. Founded in Peterborough in 1833, the library was the first to be financed by tax dollars.

  5. True

  6. B. It has outgrown its old home in the palace of Cardinal Mazarin and is being moved.

  7. True. It is one of the most photographed libraries in Latin America.

  8. A.

  9. False. He was one of China's greatest book-burners, ordering the destruction of thousands of books in 213 B.C.

  10. True