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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author describe the attitude of the killer caught for Merrett's death upon the killer's capture?
(a) Excited and happy.
(b) Bored and uninterested.
(c) Cool and collected.
(d) Embarrassed and sad.

2. In what year did Dr. Minor arrive in London?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1831.

3. Where did the making of the Oxford English Dictionary begin?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) Under the London Bridge,
(c) Under the Big Ben Clock.
(d) The London Library.

4. Merrett's killer was from ______________.
(a) Seattle, Washington.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Portland, Maine.
(d) New Haven, Connecticut.

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

6. In Chapter 2, The Man Who Taught Latin to Cattle, who is introduced as the first protagonist?
(a) Mr. Merrett.
(b) Mrs. Scott.
(c) Dr. Minor.
(d) Dr. Murray.

7. What did the killer do immediately upon being arrested by police?
(a) Tried to escape.
(b) Confessed.
(c) Laughed uncontrollably.
(d) Fell asleep.

8. How many supplements of the Oxford English Dictionary came out after the original?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

9. Which of the following is noted to have been a fact four hundred years earlier than Mr. Trench's speeches?
(a) The first English dictionary was published.
(b) There was no English dictionary in existence.
(c) People rarely used dictionaries.
(d) The word "dictionary" did not exist.

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

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

12. How many children did the Merretts have?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

13. To whom were Richard Chenevix Trench's speeches directed?
(a) Londoners.
(b) The London Phililogical Society.
(c) Americans.
(d) The general public.

14. Who arrested Merrett's killer?
(a) Constable Tarrant.
(b) Henry Burton.
(c) William Ward.
(d) Officer Burton.

15. When was Murray invited to Oxford?
(a) April 26th, 1878.
(b) May 8th, 1876.
(c) May 8th, 1878.
(d) April 21st, 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. What central figure in the story happened across Murray's appeal to the English people in regards to the Oxford English Dictionary?

2. How many years later did the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary come out after the original?

3. How old was the man who killed Merrett?

4. At what age was William sent to the United States?

5. Where did Richard Chenevix Trench speak?

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