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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the sole purpose of this club?
(a) To drink massive quantities of beer, read sagas, and sing.
(b) To eat Swedish food.
(c) To learn a foreign language.
(d) To read Scandinavian literature.

2. Why is the baby named John?
(a) After a friend of the family.
(b) After his grandfather.
(c) After his father.
(d) After his uncle.

3. North Oxford had become a community of academics, their wives, and families who lived where?
(a) In the grand mansions and suburban villas.
(b) In cheap rental homes.
(c) In large apartments.
(d) In small, modest homes.

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

5. The family settles into their new home and Tolkien embraced his duties as what?
(a) A professor.
(b) A club advisor.
(c) A writer.
(d) A father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the many strange disturbances in the house at Bloemfontein?

2. Tolkien was fortunate to survive what he referred to as what?

3. What will Mabel do about housing?

4. One notable aspect of the photos is what?

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

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