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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Then Only the Monuments, Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author describe the words in the early English dictionaries in Chapter 4, Gathering Earth's Daughters?
(a) Poorly defined and too little.
(b) Simple and odd.
(c) Odd and poorly defined.
(d) Strange and simple.

2. What was the idea behind the Philological Society?
(a) Improvement upon the understanding of the properly dominant language of the world.
(b) To promote Christian missionary work.
(c) To promote new admissions to the Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) To gather and discuss new admissions to the Oxford English Dictionary.

3. What did Murray threaten to do at various times due to the Delegates' interferences, slow pace, and his suffering health?
(a) Fire everyone.
(b) Resign.
(c) Stop the process.
(d) Report Minor to the police.

4. How long did each book of the dictionary take Minor to complete?
(a) Five months.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Three months.

5. When was the project to create the first Oxford English Dictionary commissioned?
(a) In the 1860's.
(b) In the 1850's.
(c) In the 1840's.
(d) In the 1830's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Minor blocked after the first few months of his stay at Broadmoor?

2. Where was Minor born?

3. What did Minor's diagnosis actually mean?

4. From what disease did William's mother die?

5. When was Minor born?

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