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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the wargs come to the clearing where the adventurers were?
(a) The goblins had sent the wargs to hunt down the adventurers.
(b) They were going to meet the goblins so they could go raiding together.
(c) The wolves were running away from the woodsmen who had settled in the area.
(d) The wargs could smell the adventurers and came to hunt them.

2. What is another name for the Dwarves' New Year?
(a) The Threshold of Winter.
(b) Durin's Day.
(c) The Day of the Thrush.
(d) The Hunter's Moon.

3. What day of the week was it when the adventurers were captured?
(a) Tuesday night (or Wednesday morning).
(b) Monday morning (or Sunday night).
(c) Monday night (or Tuesday morning).
(d) Thursday evening (or Thursday morning).

4. What does Bilbo take from the trolls' hoard of loot?
(a) A pot full of gold coins.
(b) A long beautiful sword in a jewelled scabbard.
(c) A large, clumsy key.
(d) A knife big enough to serve him as a short sword.

5. What is unusual or rare about Elrond's ancestry?
(a) He is half elf and half human.
(b) He is half elf and half goblin.
(c) He is half human and half hobbit.
(d) He is half human and half goblin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is supposed to ride in the boat with Bombur?

2. What does the Master believe about Thorin and his company at first?

3. Why does Bombur fall into the enchanted river?

4. What is the most common building material used in Laketown?

5. For whom was the armor Bilbo is rewarded with in Chapter 13 originally made?

(see the answer key)

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