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

2. To whom were Richard Chenevix Trench's speeches directed?
(a) Americans.
(b) The general public.
(c) Londoners.
(d) The London Phililogical Society.

3. At Broadmoor, who was searched and taken to Surrey?
(a) William Bard.
(b) James Ward.
(c) William Minor.
(d) John McClellan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom was William to live upon arriving in the United States?

2. How many years later did the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary come out after the original?

3. What did the killer do immediately upon being arrested by police?

4. When was Minor born?

5. Where was Minor born?

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