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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. To which block was William Minor taken upon commitment to Broadmoor?
(a) Block A
(b) Block number 8.
(c) Block number 4.
(d) Block. C.

2. Who heard the three shots fired in the beginning of the book?
(a) William Ward.
(b) Henry Burton.
(c) Eliza Ward.
(d) Henry Tarrant.

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

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

5. In what city was Murray born?
(a) Derry.
(b) Lovely.
(c) Hawick.
(d) Yorkshire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author describe the words that Minor used in his first book?

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

3. At what time where the three shots fired in the opening of the book?

4. How were Minor's and Murray's families similar?

5. What was the name of Minor's first book?

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