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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gollum eat?
(a) Fish and goblins.
(b) Bats and spiders.
(c) Fish and mushrooms.
(d) Ponies and goblins.

2. Why is Bilbo unhappy during their stay in Laketown?
(a) He has a bad cold.
(b) He is suspicious about the possible motives of the Master.
(c) He does not like the food that the Lake-men offer them.
(d) He still wishes he was back in his hobbit-hole.

3. Who finds the 'doorstep' of the secret door in Chapter 11?
(a) Bilbo, Fili and Kili.
(b) Thorin, Bilbo and Balin.
(c) Nori, Dori and Ori.
(d) Bifur, Bofur and Bombur.

4. How does Bilbo find food while skulking around in the Elvenking's palace?
(a) He scrounges it off the rubbish heaps of the elves.
(b) He steals it from the stores or the table when nobody is looking.
(c) He slips out through the magic gates and goes hunting.
(d) He takes it out of the barrels sent to Esgaroth.

5. Why is the King of the Wood Elves wiser than the men of Laketown?
(a) He realizes that the dwarves will have to steal from Smaug rather than attempt to kill him, which is what the Lake-men believe.
(b) He believes in the old songs and tales that the Master of Laketown has forgotten about.
(c) He knows a way to kill Smaug that the Lake-men do not.
(d) He quickly realizes how the dwarves managed to escape from his dungeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nearly gives Bilbo's presence away to the men steering the barrels in spite of the invisibility conferred on him by the ring?

2. Which dwarf is not present on the Doorstep when the door is finally opened?

3. How long do the dwarves and Bilbo stay in Laketown?

4. Why don't the adventurers drink from the black stream in the middle of Mirkwood?

5. Where did Gollum live before coming to the underground lake?

(see the answer key)

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