The Lantern Library
Do the statements agree with the information? Choose TRUE, FALSE, or NOT GIVEN.
The sentences follow the order of the text. “Not Given” means the writer does not say if it is true. It does not mean the idea is impossible.
The Lantern Library opened in 2016 in a former boathouse on the edge of Port Merrow. It does not lend books. Members borrow tools: drills, sewing machines, pressure washers, and a cake tin that has become oddly famous. The founder, Amina Shah, had watched neighbours buy a wallpaper steamer, use it once, and leave it in a cupboard. She rented the boathouse with a small grant from the town council and a larger loan from her sister. Membership is £20 a year for people who live in Port Merrow and £35 for everyone else. Tools go out for three days. The library does not deliver. If a tool is returned late, the member pays £2 a day, and a third late return in one year pauses membership for a month. In its first year the library recorded 1,100 loans. Last year the figure was 4,600. Shah expected the drills to be the most popular item. They are not. The sewing machines are booked solid every weekend, and the cake tin has its own waiting list in December. A local school sends a class each spring to learn how to mend a hem, but the library does not run a formal course of its own. The council renewed the grant in 2023. Shah has applied to open a second site in the next town, though she has not yet found a building. She is firm about one limit: the library will not stock anything with a motor that a member cannot lift alone.
- TRUE The statement agrees with the information
- FALSE The statement contradicts the information
- NOT GIVEN There is no information on this