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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ronald received medical care, but never got any better. What happened next?
(a) He stayed in a hospital in Germany.
(b) He was sent to a hospital in the United States.
(c) He was released back to battle.
(d) He was sent home to England.

3. Regardless of how The Hobbit is viewed, it was intended to be what?
(a) A scary story.
(b) An epic.
(c) A funny story.
(d) A children's story.

4. It was also important that the work did not become what?
(a) An embarrassment.
(b) A waste of time.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) An allegory.

5. The delay in Tolkien's next installment of books could be blamed in part on what?
(a) The war.
(b) His family concerns.
(c) His ill health.
(d) The man's perfectionism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Much to Ronald's delight his childhood club survived graduation from King Edward's and continued its activities including what?

3. In January 1913, Ronald Tolkien turned 21 and was thrilled that he could finally do what?

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

5. What was Ronald's group of friends and fellow students unofficially named?

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