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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolkien received a letter from Christopher Wiseman, informing him that who had been killed?
(a) His brother.
(b) Jimmy Smits.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) G. B. Smith.

2. Why does Mabel travel here?
(a) To find her parents.
(b) To marry Arthur Tolkien.
(c) To find a job.
(d) To search for a husband.

3. What is one of the many strange disturbances in the house at Bloemfontein?
(a) Earthquakes occur.
(b) The home is silent.
(c) Monkeys climbing over the wall.
(d) New hired help is brought in daily.

4. Without Edith, Ronald focused his entire life around what?
(a) School at King Edward's.
(b) Another young lady.
(c) His faith.
(d) His friends.

5. Ronald and Edith return from their honeymoon, and Ronald receives his first rejection letter for what?
(a) A myth.
(b) Poetry.
(c) A play.
(d) A novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the spring of 1904 Mabel is diagnosed with what?

2. Meanwhile Mabel and the boys would live where?

3. Carpenter believes that Tolkien may have substituted his mother with what?

4. Carpenter is expected, but is greeted with some puzzlement. Why?

5. Ronald managed to fit in with the help of some fellow ___________.

(see the answer key)

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