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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Then Only the Monuments, Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the doctor who classified Minor's diagnosis?
(a) Martin Petrovich.
(b) Emil Kraepelin.
(c) Jurgen Mueller.
(d) Mikhail Vladilim.

2. How old was the man who killed Merrett?
(a) Thirty-seven.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Forty-two.

3. How did the author describe Murray's work in Chapter 8, Annulated, Art, Brick-Tea, Buckwheat?
(a) Easier than the years before.
(b) Painstaking.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Relatively easy compared to Minor's.

4. What was the overall effect of the large amount of word donors on Furnivall and his dictionary volunteers?
(a) Furnivall hired many more excited volunteers.
(b) Furnivall became afraid and fled to Spain.
(c) Furnivall eventually lost his energy, and the volunteers lost enthusiasm as a result.
(d) Furnivall's volunteers turned against him.

5. According to the author, in what year did Minor complete his first word list?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1882.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of work did the Minors do in Ceylon?

2. From what country were the two men who did not attend the great dictionary dinner?

3. How did the author describe the attitude of the killer caught for Merrett's death upon the killer's capture?

4. Whom does the author conjecture may have pushed Minor towards Deism?

5. What was the driving force behind Minor's spiral into "lust, madness, and perdition"?

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