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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) Nowhere - he has always lived on his island.
(c) With his grandmother in a hole in a bank beside a river.
(d) On the top of a windy mountain.

2. Which dwarf has a smoke-ring blowing competition or game with Gandalf?
(a) Gloin.
(b) Bifur.
(c) Balin.
(d) Thorin.

3. What phase of the moon is showing when Elrond studies the map?
(a) A full moon.
(b) A gibbous moon.
(c) A crescent moon.
(d) A new moon.

4. What is the answer to Bilbo's first riddle?
(a) Teeth.
(b) White horses.
(c) The wind.
(d) A mountain.

5. After they have defeated the spiders, who do the adventurers discover is missing?
(a) Kili.
(b) Bombur.
(c) Thorin.
(d) Dwalin.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Gloin say about Bilbo that enrages Bilbo so much that he overcomes his fears and joins the adventurers?

4. What will happen if Bilbo loses the riddle contest?

5. What sort of elves have taken Thorin prisoner?

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