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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did C.S. Lewis choose to write about in a trilogy?
(a) Space travel.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Blood.
(d) Love.

2. What was NOT a new term introduced in the manuscript about the globe?
(a) Andunie.
(b) Sunsetland.
(c) Numenor.
(d) Loveland.

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

4. The Valarindi are children created from ______.
(a) The heavens.
(b) The prelates.
(c) The world.
(d) The mounds.

5. What languages did Albion enjoy learning?
(a) Russian, English, Greek, Latin, Welsh, and French.
(b) Latin, Greek, Old English, Norse, Welsh, and Irish.
(c) Latin, Greek, Italian, German, and French.
(d) French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German.

6. Which gates reappeared from the Lost Tales?
(a) Of Evening.
(b) Of Morning.
(c) Of Life.
(d) Of Death.

7. What were the ships west of the isle drawn into?
(a) A dungeon.
(b) An abyss.
(c) A tidepool.
(d) A hold.

8. What development bore on how to date the manuscript?
(a) Textual.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Literary.
(d) Visual.

9. Whose biography bears similarities to Tolkien's own life?
(a) Johann.
(b) Albion.
(c) Elendil.
(d) Audion.

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

11. What followed the second manuscript?
(a) A leaflet.
(b) A typescript.
(c) A letter.
(d) A book.

12. For Albion, what became more frequent, absorbing, and linguistic over time?
(a) Fears.
(b) Lies.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Secrets.

13. What does Elendil mean in Eressian?
(a) Loyal companion.
(b) Trusty advocate.
(c) Long lost friend.
(d) Elf-friend.

14. How many Sun years have the Valar come into existence in the present day?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 20,000.

15. Who was Earendel and Elwing's only child?
(a) Eric.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Elrond.
(d) Elder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the Numenoreans was attributed only to the Valar as a gift?

2. What did Morgoth do to the Elder Children of Illuvatar?

3. What story by Tolkien had only the introduction and end?

4. What were the Elder Children of Illuvatar called?

5. The Valar did not measure time until what was completed?

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