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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, The Unkindest Cut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a fan of Huxley?
(a) Bard.
(b) Minor.
(c) Murray.
(d) Ms. Merrett.

2. What did Minor have shelves made for at Broadmoor?
(a) His wooden boat models.
(b) His painting tools.
(c) His drawing tools.
(d) His books.

3. In what year was Minor given electroshock therapy at Broadmoor?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1875.

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) Strange and simple.
(c) Odd and poorly defined.
(d) Simple and odd.

5. What was the tragedy of the three shots fired named by the papers?
(a) "The Strategery."
(b) "The Tragedy of London."
(c) "The Lambeth Tragedy."
(d) "The Great Tragedy."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard Chenevix Trench speak?

2. When Murray sees the superintendent of Broadmoor, he thinks that the man is _________________.

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

4. Minor's submissions to Murray arrived in ______________.

5. According to the author, for how long had Minor been planning to physically mutilate his sexual organs?

(see the answer key)

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