High School Writing Grades 9 10 Quiz
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RESEARCH TO BUILD AND PRESENT KNOWLEDGE
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The following is an excerpt from an original essay, "The Quiet Revolution of the Public Library."
When Andrew Carnegie began funding public libraries in the late nineteenth century, critics dismissed the project as vanity philanthropy—a wealthy industrialist buying reputation with stone and mortar. But Carnegie's insistence that each community match his grant with tax dollars, and staff the building indefinitely, produced something more durable than a monument. It produced a habit. Towns that accepted his terms had to commit, in perpetuity, to the idea that knowledge was a public utility, like water or gas. A century later, when the buildings are patched, rewired, and stuffed with laptops instead of ledgers, that original bargain still holds. The librarian at the desk in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is enforcing a contract signed in 1889.
Which claim from the passage would most require the reader to consult additional sources before accepting it as established fact rather than the author's interpretation?
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