Quiz · Restoring Ancient Manuscripts

Question 1What is the main purpose of the listening passage?

To advertise a great library and its oldest books To explain how medieval scribes wrote on vellum To compare digital scans with printed books To describe the careful work of restoring ancient manuscripts

Question 2What is the guiding principle of the whole restoration craft?

Speed, so that more books can be repaired each year Reversibility, so nothing done today is beyond undoing Secrecy, so that visitors never learn about the work Permanence, so that repairs can never be removed

Question 3Why does the passage say digital imaging is valuable to scholars?

It captures the smell of old parchment perfectly It repairs torn pages faster than any human hand It gives free worldwide access without endangering the original It identifies pigments without any spectral analysis