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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sees a black shadow first as the Hobbits are traveling across the river?
(a) Merry
(b) Sam
(c) Frodo
(d) Gandalf

2. What do most people in Hobbiton now think has happened to Bilbo?
(a) He never really left
(b) He's dead
(c) He is coming back soon
(d) He is a king

3. Who is worried about Gandalf's lateness?
(a) Aragorn
(b) Frodo
(c) Merry
(d) Gildor

4. Who told Frodo he should always bring his trusted friends with him on his journey?
(a) Bilbo
(b) Gandalf
(c) Gildor
(d) Sam

5. What does the man call the tree that is holding Merry and Pippin?
(a) Old Willow
(b) Old Man Willow
(c) Old Man Oak
(d) Old Man

Short Answer Questions

1. Bilbo realized the ring had many strange habits, growing smaller and larger at will and seemed to have its own _______.

2. What is Pippin's relation to Frodo, according to the story?

3. Who is the friend of Fatty Bolger who helps to prepare Frodo's new home for him before he arrives?

4. Merry and Pippin decide to lie down at the foot of a large ___________ tree when they become sleepy.

5. Who is the dark stranger asking Sam's father about as the Hobbits overhear the conversation?

(see the answer key)

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