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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Annulated, Art, Brick-Tea, Buckwheat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Trench argued that dictionaries should be histories of the life span of every word and that these lives should be ______.
(a) Ended.
(b) Charted.
(c) Given.
(d) Explained.

2. Who produced a circular calling for volunteers who could choose a period of history in which they would like to read books?
(a) Minor.
(b) Trench.
(c) Murray.
(d) Furnivall.

3. Who heard the three shots fired in the beginning of the book?
(a) Eliza Ward.
(b) Henry Tarrant.
(c) Henry Burton.
(d) William Ward.

4. How did people contact the Philological Society in order to submit new words to the new dictionary?
(a) By telephone.
(b) In person at the library.
(c) By letter.
(d) By telegraph.

5. Why did the demand for dictionaries increase according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) People wanted to learn about more difficult words.
(b) More immigrants came to England.
(c) The language changed markedly.
(d) Many of the original dictionaries were burned.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the words in the early English dictionaries in Chapter 4, Gathering Earth's Daughters?

2. Where were George Merrett and his wife originally from?

3. How were Minor's and Murray's families similar?

4. After the first installment, how long did Murray believe it would take him to finish the entire book?

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

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