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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. What does Mabel decide to do about her children's education?
(a) She will homeschool them.
(b) She ends it.
(c) She pays for them to attend the most expensive school in the country.
(d) She sends them to a neighbor for tutoring.

2. Meanwhile Mabel and the boys would live where?
(a) In an inexpensive rental.
(b) With her in-laws.
(c) With her parents.
(d) With friends.

3. In January 1913, Ronald Tolkien turned 21 and was thrilled that he could finally do what?
(a) Visit his brother.
(b) Be reunited with Edith.
(c) Drive a car.
(d) Graduate from college.

4. Why does Mabel have to be hospitalized?
(a) There is no one to care for her at home.
(b) She is very contagious.
(c) There is no treatment for Diabetes at this time.
(d) She will need to receive treatment.

5. To Tolkien, this death represented what?
(a) The end of his life.
(b) The beginning of an era.
(c) The end of an era.
(d) The end of the world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ronald was stricken with what the doctors referred to as what?

3. How does Mabel feel when Arthur tells his father that he cannot see returning to England on a permanent basis?

4. It was during this time that Tolkien started to do what?

5. When did Father Francis permit Tolkien to write to Edith?

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