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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How high is the doorway that leads into the secret tunnel in Chapter 11?
(a) Five feet high.
(b) Three feet high.
(c) Six feet high.
(d) We are not told.

2. How old is Roac the raven?
(a) We are not told.
(b) 300.
(c) 153.
(d) 135.

3. What makes Bilbo drop his torch after finding the Arkenstone?
(a) A bat startles him.
(b) He is so surprised when he sees the Arkenstone that he drops the torch.
(c) He trips over a necklace of pearls.
(d) He believes the dragon is coming back and wants to hide.

4. What unexpected news does Bilbo give the elves and Lakemen?
(a) The goblins are on their way to take the treasure.
(b) Dain from the Iron Hills is coming to Thorin's aid.
(c) Smaug had a mate who is still alive inside the mountain.
(d) Thorin is weakening and is prepared to share.

5. Why is the King of the Wood Elves wiser than the men of Laketown?
(a) He knows a way to kill Smaug that the Lake-men do not.
(b) He realizes that the dwarves will have to steal from Smaug rather than attempt to kill him, which is what the Lake-men believe.
(c) He quickly realizes how the dwarves managed to escape from his dungeons.
(d) He believes in the old songs and tales that the Master of Laketown has forgotten about.

6. What did Smaug meet in his nightmare before he wakes up?
(a) An army of archers.
(b) A bigger, stronger dragon wanting to steal his hoard.
(c) A brave warrior with a sword.
(d) Thieves stealing from his hoard.

7. What colors is Smaug?
(a) Red and green.
(b) Red and black.
(c) Green and gold.
(d) Red and gold.

8. In Chapter 16, who does Bilbo deal with and offer his share of the treasure to, along with the Arkenstone?
(a) The Elvish High Council.
(b) Bard and the Master.
(c) Bard and the King of the Wood Elves.
(d) Gandalf and Bard.

9. What wound has Gandalf sustained during the Battle of the Five Armies?
(a) A bad cut to the head that required stitching.
(b) A broken arm from falling off a cliff.
(c) An undefined wound in the arm that requires him to wear a sling.
(d) Loss of half a foot when a goblin hacked it off with an axe.

10. Who carries the wooden casket holding the Arkenstone to the parley with Thorin?
(a) Gandalf.
(b) Bard the Bowman.
(c) The Master of Laketown.
(d) An unnamed wood-elf.

11. Why can Bard understand the speech of the thrush?
(a) He has studied the language of birds and is used to it.
(b) The thrush spoke Bard's native language.
(c) His ancestors came from Dale, where the people had the power of understanding the speech of birds.
(d) It was a special, magical thrush that could make any human that spoke to it understand.

12. What happened to Thorin's sword Orcrist?
(a) It had fallen off and become lost while the Eagles were rescuing the adventurers from the wargs and goblins.
(b) Nothing - Thorin uses it to enhance his kingly apperance when he presents himself to the Master of Laketown.
(c) It had become hopelessly rusty in the trip down the river.
(d) The King of the Wood Elves took it from Thorin when he was made prisoner.

13. In Chapter 12, who volunteers to come some of the way down the tunnel with Bilbo?
(a) Thorin.
(b) Fili.
(c) Kili.
(d) Balin.

14. How does Bilbo know that the gem he stumbles across is the Arkenstone?
(a) Bilbo recognizes it from Thorin's description.
(b) He does not know it is the Arkenstone at all and fails to recognize it.
(c) He hears the ghost of a long-dead dwarf whisper its name to him as he picks it up.
(d) It is written in letters of gold across one of the facets of the stone.

15. Which dwarves are killed in the battle or die because of wounds sustained during it?
(a) Bifur, Bofur and Bombur.
(b) Thorin, Fili and Kili.
(c) Thorin, Balin and Dwalin.
(d) Dori, Nori and Ori.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Master believe about Thorin and his company at first?

2. What does Bilbo give to the Elvenking to pay for the food and wine he stole from him?

3. Who finds the 'doorstep' of the secret door in Chapter 11?

4. How does the Elvenking react to the sight of the Arkenstone?

5. How long do the dwarves and Bilbo stay in Laketown?

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