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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Fall of Numenor and the Lost Road, Chapters 1-2, The Early History of the Legend, The Fall of Numenor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose return was mentioned in some manuscripts and ignored in others?
(a) Daimon.
(b) Silmarron.
(c) Morgoth.
(d) Schuster.

2. What year did Tolkien write about the legend?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1978.

3. What occurred in the Great Sea appeared east of Tol-eressea?
(a) A rift.
(b) A hole.
(c) A bluff.
(d) A dungeon.

4. Who made the World into a globe?
(a) Vora.
(b) Valar.
(c) Vinland.
(d) Valkryie.

5. Which evil person was mentioned in the second manuscript?
(a) Michele.
(b) Valdor.
(c) Sauron.
(d) Eric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tolkien intend to write a new version of?

2. In what year did Tolkien recount a discussion he had with C.S. Lewis, where they decided who would write stories about two of the big "plot devices" of the day?

3. What development bore on how to date the manuscript?

4. Who was Elros?

5. What followed the second manuscript?

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