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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Minor's first book?
(a) "Complete Man."
(b) "Ceylon Over."
(c) "Complete Me."
(d) "Complete Woman."

2. How did Minor regard the Asylum?
(a) As his playground.
(b) As his home.
(c) As his temple.
(d) As his library.

3. What addiction did Eliza have after being in touch with Minor?
(a) Marijuana addiction.
(b) Cocaine addiction.
(c) Kleptomania.
(d) Alcoholism.

4. In what year did Brayn order all of Minor's privileges to be removed?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1908.

5. On what day of the week in November did Murray decide to travel and meet Minor?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Saturday.

6. How many pages did "A" have in the first published installment?
(a) 341.
(b) 352.
(c) 175.
(d) 142.

7. 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-eight years.
(b) Forty-seven years.
(c) Fifty-two years.
(d) Forty-four years.

8. According to Minor, every word would possibly be a ______ now that he was beginning his work on the dictionary.
(a) "Challenge."
(b) "Flash."
(c) "Catchword."
(d) "Play."

9. 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.

10. What was the first word of Minor's to be pasted onto a page for the printers?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Ace.
(c) Aptitude.
(d) Art.

11. Whom does the author conjecture may have pushed Minor towards Deism?
(a) Huxley.
(b) Murray.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Merrett.

12. How many rooms did Minor have during his stay at Broadmoor?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

13. When was the publishing of the first installment of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) December 12th, 1887.
(b) May 8th, 1883.
(c) January 29th, 1884.
(d) February 6th, 1882.

14. What was Murray filled with after learning that Minor was a patient at the asylum?
(a) Fear.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Interest.
(d) Anger.

15. How long did it take Murray to travel to see Minor?
(a) A bit under a day.
(b) A little over a day.
(c) A bit over an hour.
(d) A bit under an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. The word which troubled Murray and was sent to Minor had _______________ "shades of meaning."

2. The Scriptorium made out of ______________.

3. What time span did the author use to describe the length of time Minor took to complete his first word list?

4. What was Huxley involved in professionally?

5. What style of building was Broadmoor?

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