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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of elves have taken Thorin prisoner?
(a) Wood Elves.
(b) Deep Elves.
(c) Sea Elves.
(d) Light Elves.

2. Why does Smaug react with such great fury in Chapter 12?
(a) He is hungry after his long sleep and his hunger infuriates him.
(b) He smells the dwarves and realizes that they are coming to kill him.
(c) He is outraged that someone has dared to steal from him.
(d) He is extremely disturbed by his nightmare.

3. Why don't the adventurers drink from the black stream in the middle of Mirkwood?
(a) It flows too fast to be safe if they stand on the brink and try to fill their waterskins.
(b) Beorn had warned them that the water was enchanted.
(c) They are more interested in getting across it.
(d) It looks poisonous and unhealthy.

4. How long do the dwarves and Bilbo stay in Laketown?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two days.
(c) A fortnight.
(d) We are not told.

5. What type of enchantments is Gandalf especially good at?
(a) Prophecy and pathfinding.
(b) Fire and lights.
(c) Illusions and turning his enemies to stone.
(d) Calling down lightning and thunder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapons do the Wood Elves use when they take the dwarves prisoner?

2. What light are the adventurers using to guide them inside the tunnels in Chapter 4?

3. Where were Glamdring and Orcrist originally forged?

4. Why can Bard understand the speech of the thrush?

5. In Chapter 9, with whom does the chief guard get drunk?

(see the answer key)

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