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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beorn react to the dwarves' talk of gold, silver and jewels?
(a) He ignores them, as he has no interest in treasures.
(b) He is intrigued and starts becoming greedy for a share of the treasure.
(c) He is amazed at the skill the dwarves talk about.
(d) He is angry and perplexed at their greed.

2. What prediction of Gandalf's comes true in Chapter 9?
(a) The dwarves have learned to trust Bilbo to save them.
(b) They came to disaster when they left the path in Mirkwood.
(c) They will be unable to reach the Lonely Mountain by Durin's Day.
(d) They will have to abandon their quest and return to digging coal.

3. What is "never thirsty, ever drinking/All in mail never clinking?"
(a) A fish.
(b) The skeleton of a drowned knight.
(c) Goblins.
(d) Gollum's grandmother.

4. What phase of the moon is showing when Bilbo realizes that Durin's Day has come and they can find the keyhole?
(a) A half moon.
(b) A waning crescent.
(c) A full moon.
(d) A new moon.

5. How does Bilbo find food while skulking around in the Elvenking's palace?
(a) He scrounges it off the rubbish heaps of the elves.
(b) He steals it from the stores or the table when nobody is looking.
(c) He takes it out of the barrels sent to Esgaroth.
(d) He slips out through the magic gates and goes hunting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gollum eat?

2. What does Elrond dislike about dwarves?

3. What nearly gives Bilbo's presence away to the men steering the barrels in spite of the invisibility conferred on him by the ring?

4. What phase of the moon is showing when Elrond studies the map?

5. Why do the goblins not find Bilbo after he is knocked unconscious?

(see the answer key)

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