In an alphabetical catalog by book titles and author names, the name De Santis would be filed relative to Deutsch how?

• A. Before Deutsch
• B. After Deutsch
• C. Between Deutsch and DiNardo
• D. At the end

Answer: (A)

Alphabetical filing compares names letter by letter, and typical practice treats a surname like De Santis as part of the whole last name, ignoring spaces and punctuation for sorting.

Both names start with the same letters D and e. After that, the next significant character in De Santis is S (from Santis) once you ignore the space, while in Deutsch the next character is u. Since S comes before U in the alphabet, De Santis comes earlier in the order than Deutsch.

So De Santis would be filed before Deutsch.