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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Man Who Taught Latin to Cattle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author describe the attitude of the killer caught for Merrett's death upon the killer's capture?
(a) Cool and collected.
(b) Embarrassed and sad.
(c) Bored and uninterested.
(d) Excited and happy.

2. What would the definitive quotes show in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) How words had been used over centuries.
(b) How words could be combined.
(c) What kinds of words they were.
(d) Where these words were most used.

3. How have many described the language of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Basic.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Easy.

4. How many supplements of the Oxford English Dictionary came out after the original?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

5. In Chapter 2, the author gives a detailed description of what word?
(a) Antgonist.
(b) Love.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of New London does the story open?

2. When does this story take place?

3. At what time where the three shots fired in the opening of the book?

4. Who heard the three shots fired in the beginning of the book?

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

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