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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following devices do the goblins not make (or have made for them)?
(a) Trumpets.
(b) Tongs.
(c) Instruments of torture.
(d) Pickaxes.

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

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

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

5. What musical instrument does Thorin Oakenshield play?
(a) A clarinet.
(b) A flute.
(c) A harp.
(d) A fiddle.

6. What is obviously magical about Gandalf's sword Glamdring (Foe-hammer)?
(a) It cannot be taken out of the owner's hand unless the owner is killed.
(b) It becomes invisible when the owner is in danger.
(c) It burns blue when goblins are nearby.
(d) It emits a high-pitched screeching sound when it kills goblins.

7. What is "never thirsty, ever drinking/All in mail never clinking?"
(a) Goblins.
(b) The skeleton of a drowned knight.
(c) Gollum's grandmother.
(d) A fish.

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

9. What does Bilbo take from the trolls' hoard of loot?
(a) A large, clumsy key.
(b) A knife big enough to serve him as a short sword.
(c) A pot full of gold coins.
(d) A long beautiful sword in a jewelled scabbard.

10. Who found the cave in Chapter 4?
(a) Balin and Dwalin.
(b) Fili and Kili.
(c) Bifur, Bofur and Bombur.
(d) Gandalf and Bilbo.

11. What does Bilbo learn about his sword in Chapter 5?
(a) It acts as a compass so he does not lose his sense of direction.
(b) He can use it like a match to make fire.
(c) It helps him see in the dark.
(d) It is an elvish blade like Glamdring and Orcrist.

12. What is the name of Gandalf's cousin?
(a) Radagast.
(b) Elrond.
(c) Saruman.
(d) Mithrandir.

13. What nearly gives Bilbo's presence away to the men steering the barrels in spite of the invisibility conferred on him by the ring?
(a) His wet footprints and his sneezing.
(b) He bumps into the men quite frequently.
(c) His shadow in the torchlight.
(d) His weight presses the barrels lower in the water.

14. What does Thorin use as a weapon against the trolls in Chapter 2?
(a) A burning branch from the fire.
(b) A cauldron of boiling water.
(c) A dagger.
(d) A branch torn off a tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose hood and cloak does Bilbo borrow?

2. Why did the wargs come to the clearing where the adventurers were?

3. Who is supposed to ride in the boat with Bombur?

4. What prediction of Gandalf's comes true in Chapter 9?

5. What does Gollum call the ring?

(see the answer keys)

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