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

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

3. How does the Elvenking react to the sight of the Arkenstone?
(a) He is consumed by lust for the gem and is willing to renounce the rest of the treasure if he can have the Arkenstone.
(b) He is unimpressed by it.
(c) He rejects Bilbo's offer as treacherous and ignoble, preferring instead to fight fairly for a share of the treasure.
(d) He is amazed by its beauty and questions Bilbo's right to give it to him.

4. How does Bilbo manage to recognize Thorin after freeing him from the barrel?
(a) By his long nose and bristling beard.
(b) By his blue hood with the silver tassel and by his golden chain.
(c) By a distinctive scar left from his encounter with Smaug in the distant past.
(d) By his red cloak, black boots and dark green tunic

5. Who attacks first and starts the war over the dragon gold?
(a) The Lakemen.
(b) The dwarves.
(c) The elves.
(d) The goblins and wargs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first landmark feature that Bilbo notices as the barrel he is riding takes him out of the forest?

2. How does Thorin learn that Bilbo was the one who gave the Arkenstone to Bard and the Elvenking?

3. What wound has Gandalf sustained during the Battle of the Five Armies?

4. What does Thorin take as armor and weapons from the hoard of Smaug's treasure?

5. How old is Roac the raven?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon what does Bard the Bowman base his claim to a share of the dragon's treasure?

2. What effect does the sight of the treasure have on the dwarves?

3. Why does Thorin refuse to share the treasure with Bard and his allies and treat them with hostility?

4. What reconciles the forces of the men and elves, and the dwarves in Chapter 17?

5. How is Bilbo able to take and hide the Arkenstone without the dwarves knowing?

6. What advice does Roac the raven give to Thorin in this Chapters 15 & 16?

7. What details are given in Chapter 11 as hints to an alert reader that the one chance of finding the keyhole is about to present itself?

8. What are the five armies involved in the Battle of the Five Armies?

9. What is the dwarves' original plan or strategy?

10. Why does the dwarves' imprisonment turn out to be a lucky accident?

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