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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bilbo manage to recognize Thorin after freeing him from the barrel?
(a) By his blue hood with the silver tassel and by his golden chain.
(b) By his long nose and bristling beard.
(c) By a distinctive scar left from his encounter with Smaug in the distant past.
(d) By his red cloak, black boots and dark green tunic

2. What animals do the adventurers see quite frequently in the early stages of their journey through Mirkwood?
(a) Poisonous snakes.
(b) Wild boars.
(c) Deer.
(d) Black squirrels.

3. What is the name of the hill close to where the dwarves and Bilbo make their first camp approaching the Lonely Mountain?
(a) Dale.
(b) Ravenhill.
(c) Ravensdown.
(d) Dragonmount.

4. What sort of tree does Gandalf take refuge from the wargs in?
(a) A spruce.
(b) A fir.
(c) An oak.
(d) A pine.

5. Who sit beside Thorin at the high table after Thorin proclaims himself as the descendant of Thror, King Under the Mountain?
(a) Dwalin and Balin.
(b) Bilbo and the Master.
(c) Fili and Kili.
(d) Bofur and Bombur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Thorin's hood?

2. What weapons do the Wood Elves use when they take the dwarves prisoner?

3. What does Elrond dislike about dwarves?

4. How does Bilbo find food while skulking around in the Elvenking's palace?

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

(see the answer key)

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