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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Meeting of Minds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Murray threaten to do at various times due to the Delegates' interferences, slow pace, and his suffering health?
(a) Report Minor to the police.
(b) Resign.
(c) Stop the process.
(d) Fire everyone.

2. How many more years after the publishing of the first installment would it actually take for Murray to finish the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Forty-seven years.
(b) Forty-four years.
(c) Forty-eight years.
(d) Fifty-two years.

3. According to the author, the subgroups in the Oxford English Dictionary had to be ______ organized.
(a) Alphabetically.
(b) Meticulously.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Chronologically.

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

5. Who created the fictitious meeting of Murray and Minor?
(a) The son of Murray.
(b) Minor.
(c) Murray.
(d) A journalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the project to create the first Oxford English Dictionary commissioned?

2. Where did Richard Chenevix Trench speak?

3. Murray wanted as many ______ as he could get for the words to capture subtle variations in them.

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

5. How did Murray feel about the fact that Minor had not attended the dinners?

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