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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. Ronald spent his final year at King Edward's deeply involved in what?
(a) Thinking about Edith.
(b) A secret relationship with Edith.
(c) Planning his life after graduation.
(d) The debating society and the football league.

2. Carpenter believes that Tolkien may have substituted his mother with what?
(a) His writing.
(b) His faith in the Catholic Church.
(c) His friends.
(d) His love for Edith.

3. Mabel decides to convert to what religion?
(a) Catholicism
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Hinduism.

4. Tolkien replied that he felt the club they had created had come to an end. What is Smith's reply?
(a) The N.C.A.A. had ended.
(b) The T.C.B.S. would never end.
(c) The T.C.C.C. would never end.
(d) The T.C.B.Y had ended.

5. Ronald was stricken with what the doctors referred to as what?
(a) "Trench disease."
(b) "Pyrexia of unknown origin."
(c) "Trench fever."
(d) "A fever of unknown origin."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the baby named John?

2. What happens in 1895 when Mabel and the boys return to England for a visit?

3. Tolkien received a letter from Christopher Wiseman, informing him that who had been killed?

4. How is this conversion received by her family?

5. Chapter 7, titled "War," takes place during the summer of _________, after England declared war on Germany.

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