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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Entering the Lists.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city was Murray born?
(a) Derry.
(b) Yorkshire.
(c) Lovely.
(d) Hawick.

2. What was the driving force behind Minor's spiral into "lust, madness, and perdition"?
(a) The drug culture of Ceylon.
(b) The constant moving of his family.
(c) The women of Ceylon.
(d) The gambling scene in Ceylon.

3. The Minor family came to the United States only a decade after what group of people?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Spanish Conquistadors.
(c) The Pilgrims.
(d) King Louis XII's missionaries.

4. How old was Lucy when she died?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty-one.

5. What was the first word of Minor's to be pasted onto a page for the printers?
(a) Art.
(b) Ace.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Aptitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. England's power grew, and it felt embarrassed for not studying its language. Why did citizens want a proper dictionary?

2. How does the author describe the words in the early English dictionaries in Chapter 4, Gathering Earth's Daughters?

3. In Chapter 2, The Man Who Taught Latin to Cattle, who is introduced as the first protagonist?

4. Who would publish the first Oxford English Dictionary?

5. Apart from Minor, who struggled to follow the directions they were given?

(see the answer key)

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