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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carpenter is expected, but is greeted with some puzzlement. Why?
(a) As if the professor has forgotten about the appointment.
(b) As if the professor does not know him.
(c) As if the professor has forgotten his own name.
(d) As if the professor does not know where he is.

2. Why was Ronald eager to please Father Francis?
(a) Father Francis was still in charge of Ronald's monetary support.
(b) Father Francis can be very violent.
(c) Father Francis was like a father to him.
(d) He did not want to marry Edith unless Father Francis approved.

3. What grave mistake did Stanley Unwin make?
(a) He sent a copy of his son's letter to Tolkien
(b) He did not tell Tolkien of his son's idea.
(c) He teased Tolkien.
(d) He ignored Tolkien.

4. At this point Carpenter introduces __________, a friend of Tolkien's and popular lecturer on medieval studies.
(a) P.T. Barnum.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) P.T. Deutermann.

5. What did Tolkien and Stanley Unwin think of each other?
(a) The other was quite strange.
(b) The other was insane.
(c) They were very similar.
(d) The other was rude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Tolkien not sure he wanted to publish his book?

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

3. At the Oratory, who does Mabel Tolkien meet?

4. Part one relays details of what?

5. All of Tolkien's attention was split between the new book along and the Oxford professorship until what happened?

(see the answer key)

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