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

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

3. Minor's submissions to Murray arrived in ______________.
(a) Hampshire.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Derry.
(d) Oxford.

4. According to Chapter 5, which dictionary far surpassed all that came before it?
(a) The Oxford Cambridge Dictionary of English.
(b) The English Dictionary of America.
(c) The American Dictionary.
(d) The Oxford English Dictionary.

5. Who was the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1915?
(a) Henry Bradley.
(b) Henry James.
(c) James Henry.
(d) Bradley Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most famous editor of the Old English Dictionary?

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

3. After the publishing of the first installment, where was all of Murray's work done?

4. How did Mr. Trench define the importance of the English language insofar as Christianity?

5. In what century did some Latin-English dictionaries began to appear?

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