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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What day of the week was it when the adventurers were captured?
(a) Tuesday night (or Wednesday morning).
(b) Monday night (or Tuesday morning).
(c) Thursday evening (or Thursday morning).
(d) Monday morning (or Sunday night).

3. Which dwarves are the best at lighting fires?
(a) Nori and Ori.
(b) Bifur and Bofur.
(c) Kili and Fili.
(d) Oin and Gloin.

4. What is the name of the elvenking's butler?
(a) Dorwinion.
(b) Thranduil.
(c) Legolas.
(d) Galion.

5. What small creatures does Bilbo find at the top of the oak tree in Chapter 8?
(a) Black butterflies and spiders.
(b) Centipedes and earwigs.
(c) Squirrels and sparrows.
(d) Moths and caterpillars.

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

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

8. Which pair of dwarves are the youngest?
(a) Fili and Kili.
(b) Dori and Nori.
(c) Balin and Dwalin.
(d) Oin and Gloin.

9. Who is carrying Bilbo when the goblins find them for the second time?
(a) Bifur.
(b) Gloin.
(c) Dori.
(d) Bombur.

10. Who is the first dwarf to arrive at Bilbo's house in Chapter 1?
(a) Gloin.
(b) Dwalin.
(c) Bombur.
(d) Balin.

11. What does Gloin say about Bilbo that enrages Bilbo so much that he overcomes his fears and joins the adventurers?
(a) Little fellow bobbing on the mat.
(b) As fierce as a dragon in a pinch.
(c) Our friend and fellow conspirator.
(d) More like a grocer than a burglar.

12. In Chapter 9, with whom does the chief guard get drunk?
(a) The other guards.
(b) The men who guided the barrels up the river.
(c) The king's butler.
(d) The Elf King.

13. What do the goblins use to beat time while they sing?
(a) Hammers and tongs.
(b) Drums and gongs.
(c) Footsteps and whips.
(d) Cymbals and tamborines.

14. How does Bilbo kill the spiders who have captured the dwarves in their webs?
(a) He enrages them so much that they fall out of their trees to their deaths.
(b) He throws stones at them.
(c) He stabs them stealthily with Sting.
(d) He uses strands of their own webs to make nooses and strangles them.

15. What animals does Bilbo sense as he wanders through the dark tunnels in Chapter 5?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Fish.
(c) None - the goblins have eaten everything alive.
(d) Bats.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why can't the dwarves hear the goblins coming?

3. What is unusual or rare about Elrond's ancestry?

4. What question of Balin's enraged the Elvenking?

5. What color is Thorin's hood?

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