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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals set up the dinner table and light the lamps in Beorn's hall?
(a) Sheep, cattle and cats.
(b) Bears, boars and oxen.
(c) Ponies, dogs and sheep.
(d) Bees, eagles and enslaved wolves.

2. What is Beorn doing when Gandalf and Bilbo arrive at his house?
(a) Chopping wood.
(b) Shearing sheep.
(c) Extracting honey from his hives.
(d) Churning butter.

3. What is the other name for Rivendell?
(a) The Valley of the Elves.
(b) The Edge of the Wild.
(c) The Last Homely House.
(d) The Hidden Valley.

4. What colors of flame does Gandalf use to drive the wolves back with?
(a) Red, yellow and orange.
(b) Green, black and white.
(c) Blue, white and purple.
(d) Blue, red and green.

5. What sort of tree does Gandalf take refuge from the wargs in?
(a) A spruce.
(b) An oak.
(c) A fir.
(d) A pine.

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

7. Who made the map that Gandalf gives to Thorin?
(a) The Necromancer.
(b) Dain.
(c) Thrain.
(d) Thror.

8. What does Bilbo not tell the dwarves about his adventures inside the tunnels?
(a) That Gollum wanted to eat him if he lost the riddle contest.
(b) That he had pity on Gollum and did not kill him when he had the chance.
(c) That his little sword is an elvish blade like Glamdring and Orcrist.
(d) That he now has a ring that makes him invisible when he puts it on.

9. How does Gollum get from his island to the shore of the lake?
(a) His ring helps him walk across the surface of the water.
(b) He rides on the back of blind fish.
(c) He swims, as he is an excellent swimmer.
(d) He paddles a little boat.

10. What was the final fate of the ponies?
(a) The goblins used them to draw carts in the mines.
(b) They escaped back to Rivendell.
(c) They starved to death.
(d) The goblins ate them.

11. 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.

12. Why can't the dwarves hear the goblins coming?
(a) The goblins are wearing soft shoes.
(b) The echoes inside the caves are too confusing.
(c) The goblins have made themselves invisible.
(d) The dwarves are talking too loudly.

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

14. Why are the dwarves glad to be captured by the elves (at first)?
(a) They are starving, and the elves will give their prisoners food.
(b) They know that if they promise the elves a share of their treasure, they will be set free.
(c) They guess that the elves have taken Thorin prisoner and they want to be reunited with him.
(d) The elves have been friends with the dwarves for hundreds of years.

15. Where were Glamdring and Orcrist originally forged?
(a) In Thror's kingdom that was destroyed by the dragon.
(b) In Rivendell itself.
(c) In the Mines of Moria.
(d) In the ancient elvish kingdom of Gondolin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical instrument does Thorin Oakenshield play?

2. How does Bilbo find food while skulking around in the Elvenking's palace?

3. What happened outside Beorn's hall on the first night the adventurers stayed there?

4. What does Gloin say about Bilbo that enrages Bilbo so much that he overcomes his fears and joins the adventurers?

5. What type of enchantments is Gandalf especially good at?

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