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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which troll catches Bilbo in Chapter 2?
(a) Bert.
(b) Tom.
(c) William.
(d) All three of them.

3. What was the name of Bilbo's mother?
(a) Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
(b) Belladonna Took.
(c) Rosemary Took.
(d) Bluebell Belladonna.

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

5. Why is the magic ring unable to protect the wearer from the wargs?
(a) Wargs can find the wearer by their sense of smell.
(b) Wargs can still see the wearer's shadow, even by moonlight.
(c) Wargs are magical, and the ring does not work on them.
(d) Wargs have especially keen hearing.

6. 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.

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

8. Why don't the adventurers drink from the black stream in the middle of Mirkwood?
(a) It flows too fast to be safe if they stand on the brink and try to fill their waterskins.
(b) They are more interested in getting across it.
(c) It looks poisonous and unhealthy.
(d) Beorn had warned them that the water was enchanted.

9. What is the English translation for the names of the swords (Orcrist and Glamdring) that Thorin and Gandalf now own?
(a) Tailbiter and Flame of the West.
(b) Goblin-cleaver and Foe-hammer.
(c) Warhammer and Dragonslayer.
(d) Truefriend and Goblin-hammer.

10. What cooking method do the trolls decide on first of all before Gandalf stirs up the argument again?
(a) Roasting the dwarves slowly.
(b) Mincing them and making them into pies.
(c) Mincing them and boiling them.
(d) Sitting on them and squashing them.

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

12. What sort of elves have taken Thorin prisoner?
(a) Wood Elves.
(b) Deep Elves.
(c) Light Elves.
(d) Sea Elves.

13. Whose hood and cloak does Bilbo borrow?
(a) Thorin's.
(b) Gandalf's.
(c) Dwalin's.
(d) Gloin's.

14. What is the answer to Bilbo's first riddle?
(a) White horses.
(b) The wind.
(c) A mountain.
(d) Teeth.

15. What sort of drink does Gandalf ask Bilbo to get him in Chapter 1?
(a) Red wine.
(b) Porter.
(c) Beer.
(d) Coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day does Elrond read the runes on the swords and on the map?

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

3. What is the other name for Rivendell?

4. What does Bilbo find on the floor in Chapter 5?

5. What is Beorn doing when Gandalf and Bilbo arrive at his house?

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