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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. Who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language?
(a) James Johnson.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) John Samuel.
(d) Samual Jackson.

2. In what century did demand for dictionaries increase?
(a) The 17th.
(b) The 14th.
(c) The 16th.
(d) The 15th.

3. What did Judith do professionally?
(a) She was a house wife.
(b) She was a cook for the Ceylon military.
(c) She was a missionary.
(d) She was a schoolteacher.

4. 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) Strange and simple.
(d) Odd and poorly defined.

5. What quality did many people who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary admire in Minor?
(a) Love of words.
(b) Sense of patience.
(c) Meticulousness.
(d) Zest for life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men authored A Dictionary of the English Language?

2. What was the driving force behind Minor's spiral into "lust, madness, and perdition"?

3. How did people contact the Philological Society in order to submit new words to the new dictionary?

4. In what city was Murray born?

5. Which of the following is noted to have been a fact four hundred years earlier than Mr. Trench's speeches?

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