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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Gollum live before coming to the underground lake?
(a) With the goblins, but he was banished after he ate one of them.
(b) On the top of a windy mountain.
(c) With his grandmother in a hole in a bank beside a river.
(d) Nowhere - he has always lived on his island.

2. What first alerts the Lord of the Eagles to the events in the wood?
(a) The howling of the wolves.
(b) The flames in the forest.
(c) The line of goblin soldiers marching towards the forest.
(d) A magical message from Gandalf.

3. What does Gollum eat?
(a) Fish and goblins.
(b) Ponies and goblins.
(c) Bats and spiders.
(d) Fish and mushrooms.

4. Which dwarf has to come to Beorn's house alone?
(a) Bombur.
(b) Dori.
(c) Dwalin.
(d) Thorin.

5. How does the forest catch on fire in Chapter 6?
(a) Gandalf lights the fire to attract the attention of the eagles.
(b) The wargs spread it accidentally after Gandalf sets their coats alight.
(c) A dead tree is hit by summer lightning.
(d) The goblins light it deliberately to kill the adventurers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the adventurers drink from the black stream in the middle of Mirkwood?

2. Which of the following devices do the goblins not make (or have made for them)?

3. What foodstuffs do the adventurers take from the troll's cave for breakfast?

4. Which of the following is not a hazard that needs to be avoided in the path leading to Rivendell?

5. What does Bilbo eat for breakfast when he wakes up in the eagles' eyrie?

(see the answer key)

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