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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What game or sport was accidentally invented by Bilbo's ancestor Bullroarer Took?
(a) Football.
(b) Snooker.
(c) Golf.
(d) Polo.

3. What does Bilbo think the eagles will do to him at first?
(a) He thinks they will give him back to the goblins.
(b) He hopes that they will give him a meal.
(c) He thinks they plan to eat him.
(d) He is afraid they will drop him over the edge of their eyrie.

4. What is another name for the Dwarves' New Year?
(a) The Threshold of Winter.
(b) The Day of the Thrush.
(c) Durin's Day.
(d) The Hunter's Moon.

5. What wakes Bilbo up from his sleep after he realizes he is alone in Chapter 8, after coming across the elves' feast?
(a) A high-pitched buzzing noise made by a fly attempting to escape from the spiders.
(b) The shouts and cries of the dwarves.
(c) A spider, which is trying to wrap him up in sticky thread.
(d) The hunting horn of the elf king.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a name for the trolls?

2. What is Thorin considering doing when he learns that the other dwarves are also in prison with him?

3. Where does Bilbo hide while the trolls are fighting and arguing?

4. Why are the dwarves glad to be captured by the elves (at first)?

5. What special ability does Beorn have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the wargs (wolves) in the woods that night in Chapter 6?

2. Summarize in your own words how the trade between the Wood Elves and the men of Laketown operates.

3. Describe in your own words how the riddle contest between Bilbo and Gollum was played and what the winner of the contest would win.

4. How do the Wood Elves differ from the goblins in regards to their treatment of prisoners?

5. Retell the events of Chapter 6 in your own words from the point of view of the Lord of the Eagles.

6. What is special about the swords that Gandalf and Thorin took from the trolls' hoard of plunder?

7. How do the dwarves and Bilbo manage to escape from the goblins?

8. What advice do Beorn and Gandalf give to Bilbo and the dwarves about the journey through Mirkwood?

9. What are some natural features that serve as defenses for Rivendell, both in the way of putting hazards in the path of potential attackers and for hiding/camouflaging Rivendell?

10. Why does Bilbo decide to pick William the troll's pocket?

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