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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mabel feel when Arthur tells his father that he cannot see returning to England on a permanent basis?
(a) Angry.
(b) Worried.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Depressed.

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

3. What other plan of Tolkien's also had to be put aside?
(a) The author's plan to have life size maps.
(b) The author's plan to have removable maps.
(c) The author's plan to create a map for each page.
(d) The author's plan for having invisible lettering on the maps.

4. Members of Exeter College saw great promise in the student and suggested that Ronald become what?
(a) A playwright.
(b) A philologist.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A psychologist.

5. Eventually, Tolkien told his publisher that he was "forgetting about children." Why?
(a) The new story was becoming frightening and was perhaps unsuitable for young minds.
(b) He was tired of writing for children.
(c) He was annoyed by his own children.
(d) Children no longer liked his work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did some of the maps have to be reconstructed?

2. While in service Tolkien received a letter from his friend, G. B. Smith, stating that who had been killed?

3. How did this critic respond to Tolkien's work?

4. Why is the trip to England postponed?

5. Regardless of how The Hobbit is viewed, it was intended to be what?

(see the answer key)

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