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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 was the idea behind the Philological Society?
(a) To promote Christian missionary work.
(b) To gather and discuss new admissions to the Oxford English Dictionary.
(c) To promote new admissions to the Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) Improvement upon the understanding of the properly dominant language of the world.

2. At what time where the three shots fired in the opening of the book?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 5 a.m.
(c) 2 a.m.
(d) 1 a.m.

3. In Chapter 2, The Man Who Taught Latin to Cattle, who is introduced as the first protagonist?
(a) Mr. Merrett.
(b) Dr. Minor.
(c) Mrs. Scott.
(d) Dr. Murray.

4. What did Merrett's killer claim about the murder?
(a) It was easy.
(b) He was too drunk to know what was happening.
(c) It was in self defense.
(d) He had been waiting to do that for some time.

5. When are the first Latin dictionaries noted to have been in existence?
(a) 1273.
(b) 1225.
(c) 1232.
(d) 1321.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dr. Minor's house located in London?

2. In what year was the Oxford English Dictionary completed?

3. From what disease did William's mother die?

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

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

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