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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 3 | Book 2, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Black Riders look like when Frodo is wearing the Ring?
(a) Full of worms and spiders.
(b) Rotten, shriveling corpses.
(c) Tall, ghostly, shimmering kings.
(d) Black and inky.

2. Why are the hobbits not able to leave Tom's house the morning after Tom finds and takes them in?
(a) It is raining too hard for them to leave.
(b) Sam is very sick after sampling some of Goldberry's wine.
(c) Merry is still suffering from the injury he received from the Willow.
(d) They have run out of food.

3. What sends 3 of the 5 Black Riders away as Frodo and Glorfindel are rushing to Rivendell?
(a) Aragorn.
(b) A dragon.
(c) The river.
(d) An elven spell.

4. What does Strider say is the cost of his information when Frodo questions him in the Prancing Pony?
(a) That they let him be their guide.
(b) That they split with him the gifts they will get at Rivendell.
(c) That they allow him to wear the ring while at the Prancing Pony.
(d) That they promise to not tell Gandalf he was there.

5. Who says they will be part of the companionship of the ring, or be sent home in sacks?
(a) Merry and Pippen.
(b) Boromir and Faramir.
(c) Bilbo and Fatty.
(d) Aragor and Arwen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the monster in the water outside the doors of Moria attack first?

2. What does Barliman give Frodo that he was supposed to have received months earlier?

3. What gift does Bilbo give Frodo before Frodo sets out on his mission to destroy the Ring?

4. Why did Boramir come to Rivendell to find out about the ring?

5. How does Merry respond when he hears of what the other hobbits have experienced before meeting him?

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