Available Answers

1. 1.

   Are the following statements about the text you read true or false?

   1. Second-hand bookshops are a kind of paradise.
   2. First edition snobs were the commonest customers.
   3. The bookshop was the sideline of a lending library.
   4. Classic literature is easy to lend but difficult to sell.
   5. Running a bookshop is a difficult trade.
   6. The narrator would like to be a bookshop owner someday.
2. 2.

   What does the narrator do while dealing with an obvious paranoiac?

3. 3.

   What does the narrator call "the easiest crime in the world"?

4. 4.

   How does the lending library reveal the real tastes of the reading public?

5. 5.

   Why does the narrator lose his love of books?

6. 6.

   What does the narrator associate the smell of books with?