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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the evil spirit to fall into the fire pit below the steps and the bridge?
(a) It is pushed by an orc
(b) A falling rock
(c) The bridge breaks
(d) Gandalf pushes it

2. Which of the travelers heads back to Crickhollow with the pony, not continuing on the journey?
(a) Merry
(b) Sam
(c) Fatty
(d) Pippin

3. Merry and Pippin decide to lie down at the foot of a large ___________ tree when they become sleepy.
(a) Willow
(b) Maple
(c) Oak
(d) Ash

4. What do Sam and Frodo do in order to try to get the tree to release Merry and Pippin?
(a) Use their swords
(b) Dance
(c) Light a fire
(d) Sing

5. What has saved Frodo from death when he was hit by the large cave troll?
(a) Sam
(b) Aragorn
(c) Mithril
(d) Luck

Short Answer Questions

1. The book Gandalf reads from relates the history of the fall of the Dwarves to the __________.

2. What is the name of the spy for the Black Riders who sells the Hobbits and Strider a sickly pony?

3. Gimli realizes the room the travelers are in is the Chamber of ___________.

4. Legolas spots an evil spirit, or a ____________, that is coming up behind the orcs on the bridge.

5. When the Hobbits and Strider awake, they find the beds have been _______________, though they did not sleep in them.

(see the answer key)

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