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Quiz

noun

(pl. quizzes)

An examination consisting of a few short questions.

verb

(past & past part. quizzed; pres. part. quizzing)

Examine someone's knowledge of something. Synonym: test. "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

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"Quiz" Quotes from Famous Books

... and his prisoner interrupted the quiz. Prince had Dumont returned to his cell and took up the new business of Roush and his story. The sheriff knew he would be blamed for the escape of Clanton and he thought it wise to have the whole matter opened up before witnesses. Wallace Snaith and Dad Wrayburn both happened to be in town and Billie ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... course, turned the conversation on the accident, much to the distress of Barret, who feared that the jovial, off-hand reckless man from the "woods and forests" would laugh at and quiz him more severely than his friend Bob. To his surprise and great satisfaction, however, he found that his fears were groundless, for Jackman listened to the account of the incident quite gravely, betrayed not the slightest tendency ...

— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

... is no quiz whatever in it. It is just as you see it and say it—a downright mystery, and one that, perhaps, will never ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various

... on board," said the first officer, "and didn't come in for the government quiz. They should have all been thrown out.—Think the other ...

— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... what had happened,—whether they'd got rash and gone on the rug too soon, or had been run over by a truck while crossin' the street. Fin'ly she comes across one of the quitters one afternoon as I'm towin' her down Fifth-ave. on her way home from somewhere, and she puts me up to give him the quiz. ...

— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford

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