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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapons do the Wood Elves use when they take the dwarves prisoner?
(a) Swords and daggers.
(b) Whips and clubs.
(c) Bows and spears.
(d) They freeze the dwarves with their magical powers.

2. What is Thorin considering doing when he learns that the other dwarves are also in prison with him?
(a) Committing suicide.
(b) Telling the Elvenking about the quest and the treasure.
(c) Promising the Elvenking a share of the treasure.
(d) Swearing to become a slave of the elves for the rest of his life.

3. How does Bilbo know that the gem he stumbles across is the Arkenstone?
(a) Bilbo recognizes it from Thorin's description.
(b) He hears the ghost of a long-dead dwarf whisper its name to him as he picks it up.
(c) It is written in letters of gold across one of the facets of the stone.
(d) He does not know it is the Arkenstone at all and fails to recognize it.

4. What does Gollum call the ring?
(a) My special secret.
(b) My birthday present.
(c) My hiding place.
(d) My precious.

5. Why do the goblins not find Bilbo after he is knocked unconscious?
(a) They have all been killed by Gandalf's magic.
(b) He is lying quietly in a dark corner.
(c) The are too busy looking at the dwarves and Gandalf.
(d) They see him, but do not bother with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the map that Gandalf gives to Thorin?

2. How does the Elvenking react to the sight of the Arkenstone?

3. In Chapter 12, who volunteers to come some of the way down the tunnel with Bilbo?

4. What is obviously magical about Gandalf's sword Glamdring (Foe-hammer)?

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

(see the answer key)

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