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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Bilbo's handwriting look like?
(a) Flowing and beautiful.
(b) Cunning and cryptic.
(c) Crabbed and rather clumsy.
(d) Thin and spidery.

3. Who is supposed to ride in the boat with Bombur?
(a) Bilbo.
(b) Bofur.
(c) Kili.
(d) Dwalin.

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

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

6. Where did Gollum live before coming to the underground lake?
(a) Nowhere - he has always lived on his island.
(b) With his grandmother in a hole in a bank beside a river.
(c) With the goblins, but he was banished after he ate one of them.
(d) On the top of a windy mountain.

7. What does Bilbo find on the floor in Chapter 5?
(a) A knife.
(b) A ring.
(c) His pipe and tobacco pouch.
(d) A slice of bacon.

8. How does Beorn find out that Gandalf's story is true?
(a) The Lord of the Eagles tells him.
(b) He finds the burnt wolf-glade and also forces a captive warg and goblin to tell him.
(c) He finds the dead body of the Great Goblin.
(d) His bees bring him the news.

9. After they have defeated the spiders, who do the adventurers discover is missing?
(a) Bombur.
(b) Kili.
(c) Thorin.
(d) Dwalin.

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

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

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

13. What is mostly transported by river inside the barrels from the people of Laketown to the Wood Elves?
(a) Cider.
(b) Wine.
(c) Mead.
(d) Ale.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Bilbo's front door into his hobbit hole?

2. What is the goblin name for Thorin's sword?

3. What game or sport was accidentally invented by Bilbo's ancestor Bullroarer Took?

4. What animals do the adventurers see quite frequently in the early stages of their journey through Mirkwood?

5. What does Bilbo learn about his sword in Chapter 5?

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