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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Gathering Earth's Daughters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of Christianity did the Murray family follow?
(a) United Church of Christ.
(b) Seventh Day Adventists.
(c) Congregationalist.
(d) Methodist.

2. Where were George Merrett and his wife originally from?
(a) Gloucestershire.
(b) Lambeth.
(c) Hampshire.
(d) Derry.

3. What were Merrett's killer's two former professional positions?
(a) Qualified surgeon and police officer..
(b) Professor and army officer.
(c) Police officer and professor.
(d) Army officer and qualified surgeon.

4. What two words did the author use to describe the Minor family's beliefs?
(a) "Highly cynical."
(b) "Founderingly heavy."
(c) "Lightly sarcastic."
(d) "Muscularly evangelical."

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of Eastman Minor's second wife?

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

5. What did Judith do professionally?

(see the answer key)

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