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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 country was the doctor from who diagnosed Minor?
(a) Romania.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

2. What did Minor's diagnosis actually mean?
(a) "Early-flowering failure of the mental powers."
(b) "Flux of memory ability and sense of control."
(c) "Inability to retain codial mental powers."
(d) "Loss of memory in dementia."

3. Where were George Merrett and his wife originally from?
(a) Lambeth.
(b) Hampshire.
(c) Gloucestershire.
(d) Derry.

4. At what time where the three shots fired in the opening of the book?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 1 a.m.
(c) 2 a.m.
(d) 5 a.m.

5. What was the driving force behind Minor's spiral into "lust, madness, and perdition"?
(a) The women of Ceylon.
(b) The gambling scene in Ceylon.
(c) The constant moving of his family.
(d) The drug culture of Ceylon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Eastman Minor's second wife?

2. How many more years after the publishing of the first installment would it actually take for Murray to finish the Oxford English Dictionary?

3. Whose hostility faded for religion over time?

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

5. Who arrested Merrett's killer?

(see the answer key)

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