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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Valinor and Middle-Earth before The Lord of the Rings, Chapter 3, The Later Annals of Beleriand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What setting is Tolkien most known for?
(a) Simarillon.
(b) Loveland.
(c) Middle Earth.
(d) Lost Road.

2. Who made the pillars on which the lamps that light the world were placed?
(a) Morgoth.
(b) Aule.
(c) Tolkien.
(d) Banning.

3. What languages were not considered classical?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Southern.

4. Who took a third of Fingolfin's Gnomes and disappeared to Gondolin?
(a) Gondor.
(b) Tolkien.
(c) Morgoth.
(d) Turgon.

5. What was the language Albion remembered in a vision as a boy?
(a) Eressean.
(b) Norwegian.
(c) Elf-language.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which manuscript was set aside when the material was sent out for publication?

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. Who would act as ears according to Elendil?

4. What were the two trees the Valinor created made of?

5. What were the two trees called that the Valinor created?

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