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

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

3. In what city was Murray born?
(a) Hawick.
(b) Derry.
(c) Yorkshire.
(d) Lovely.

4. From what disease did William's mother die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Lyme's disease.

5. In what century did some Latin-English dictionaries began to appear?
(a) The 12th century.
(b) The 14th century.
(c) The 15th century.
(d) The 16th century.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Richard Chenevix Trench speak?

3. In four decades time, 352 pages would become how many pages?

4. In what year did Dr. Minor arrive in London?

5. When was Minor born?

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