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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 14, qho does Bard ask for help in making sure that the refugees from Laketown have food and shelter to help them through the oncoming winter?
(a) The goblins of the Misty Mountains.
(b) The dwarves of the Iron Hills.
(c) The King of the Wood Elves.
(d) Beorn and the woodsmen who hunt the Wargs.

2. What does Elrond dislike about dwarves?
(a) Their long beards.
(b) Their love of gold.
(c) Their singing.
(d) Their cruelty and wickedness towards dragons.

3. How does the Elvenking react to the sight of the Arkenstone?
(a) He is amazed by its beauty and questions Bilbo's right to give it to him.
(b) He is consumed by lust for the gem and is willing to renounce the rest of the treasure if he can have the Arkenstone.
(c) He is unimpressed by it.
(d) He rejects Bilbo's offer as treacherous and ignoble, preferring instead to fight fairly for a share of the treasure.

4. What does Bilbo see at nightfall as they travel towards Mirkwood?
(a) A great black bear (Beorn in his animal shape) following them.
(b) The borrowed ponies trying to escape.
(c) Wargs and goblins trying to sneak past Beorn's borders.
(d) Spies and servants of the Necromancer.

5. Where does Bilbo hide while the trolls are fighting and arguing?
(a) Under a sack.
(b) In a bush.
(c) In a tree trunk.
(d) In the trolls' cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose hood and cloak does Bilbo borrow?

2. How does Bilbo know that the gem he stumbles across is the Arkenstone?

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

4. Why is the King of the Wood Elves wiser than the men of Laketown?

5. Who finds the 'doorstep' of the secret door in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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