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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the other name for the Arkenstone?
(a) The Mountain of Light.
(b) The Heart of the Dragon.
(c) The Heart of the Mountain.
(d) The Heart of Darkness.

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

3. Who finds the 'doorstep' of the secret door in Chapter 11?
(a) Bifur, Bofur and Bombur.
(b) Nori, Dori and Ori.
(c) Thorin, Bilbo and Balin.
(d) Bilbo, Fili and Kili.

4. Which of the following does not happen when one of the adventurers steps into the ring of lights surrounding the elves' feast?
(a) The fire erupts in a shower of sparks.
(b) The adventurers become confused and disoriented.
(c) The elves begin singing an eerie tune.
(d) The lights magically go out.

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 takes it out of the barrels sent to Esgaroth.
(c) He slips out through the magic gates and goes hunting.
(d) He steals it from the stores or the table when nobody is looking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day of the week was it when the adventurers were captured?

2. After they have defeated the spiders, who do the adventurers discover is missing?

3. What is Thorin considering doing when he learns that the other dwarves are also in prison with him?

4. What type of bird brings Bilbo and the dwarves the news of the dragon's death?

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

(see the answer key)

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