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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weak point in Bilbo's plan of escape from the elves?
(a) He forgot to leave air-holes so the dwarves could breathe through.
(b) He forgot that the elves would notice that the barrels were still full.
(c) He forgot that he couldn't swim.
(d) He forgot that he had nobody to pack him inside a barrel.

2. Which of the following is not a change that the adventurers notice after encountering the hunt and the white deer?
(a) They see autumn leaves beginning to fall from the trees.
(b) They begin to hear singing and laughter in the distance.
(c) They start to see and hear birds in the branches above them.
(d) The shadows in the forest do not seem as deep or dark.

3. Which dwarf has to come to Beorn's house alone?
(a) Dwalin.
(b) Thorin.
(c) Dori.
(d) Bombur.

4. What does Bilbo try to steal from the trolls?
(a) A purse.
(b) A jug of beer.
(c) A pony.
(d) A dagger.

5. How does Bilbo find food while skulking around in the Elvenking's palace?
(a) He takes it out of the barrels sent to Esgaroth.
(b) He scrounges it off the rubbish heaps of the elves.
(c) He slips out through the magic gates and goes hunting.
(d) He steals it from the stores or the table when nobody is looking.

6. What reward do the dwarves give to the eagles at the end of the adventures?
(a) A golden crown for the Lord of Eagles and golden collars for his fifteen chieftans.
(b) Specially designed spurs of steel that will help them fight agains the goblins better.
(c) A magnificent necklace set with rubies and emeralds.
(d) A wagon load of silver and gold.

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

8. Where does Bilbo hide while the trolls are fighting and arguing?
(a) Under a sack.
(b) In a tree trunk.
(c) In a bush.
(d) In the trolls' cave.

9. What weather forces the adventurers to seek shelter in a cave in Chapter 4?
(a) A blizzard.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) Hail and sleet.
(d) A thunderstorm.

10. 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.

11. 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) His shadow in the torchlight.
(c) He bumps into the men quite frequently.
(d) His weight presses the barrels lower in the water.

12. 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) The goblins ate them.
(d) They starved to death.

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

14. Where are the elves hiding when they sing nonsense songs to welcome the adventurers to Rivendell?
(a) On the roof of Rivendell.
(b) In trees beside the path.
(c) Beside the stream.
(d) Under the narrow stone bridge.

15. How does Beorn react to the dwarves' talk of gold, silver and jewels?
(a) He is intrigued and starts becoming greedy for a share of the treasure.
(b) He is angry and perplexed at their greed.
(c) He is amazed at the skill the dwarves talk about.
(d) He ignores them, as he has no interest in treasures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "never thirsty, ever drinking/All in mail never clinking?"

2. What do the goblins use to beat time while they sing?

3. Which of the following devices do the goblins not make (or have made for them)?

4. What small creatures does Bilbo find at the top of the oak tree in Chapter 8?

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

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