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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 word does the author give as an example to show Minor's love for accuracy and detail?
(a) Philanderer.
(b) Lovely.
(c) Buffoon.
(d) Vivacity.

2. How many years did it take to complete the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

3. In Chapter 2, the author gives a detailed description of what word?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Antgonist.
(c) Love.
(d) Murder.

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

5. Who would publish the first Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Academic Press.
(b) Penguin Books.
(c) Harper and Row.
(d) Oxford University Press.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1915?

2. Many critics find the Oxford English Dictionary to be ______________.

3. What was the nickname of the Oxford English Dictionary?

4. Why didn't Minor attend the great dictionary dinner?

5. When Murray sees the superintendent of Broadmoor, he thinks that the man is _________________.

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