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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ronald do when he found out Edith was engaged to be married?
(a) He found a new girlfriend.
(b) He convinced her to break her engagement to marry him.
(c) He became very depressed.
(d) He told Edith good bye for the last time.

2. Why did Ronald not follow suit when Hilary signed up to become a soldier?
(a) He was not feeling well.
(b) He was afraid of war.
(c) He was concerned about leaving Oxford and wanted to finish his studies.
(d) He did not believe in war.

3. Chapter 7, titled "War," takes place during the summer of _________, after England declared war on Germany.
(a) 1924.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1904.

4. At the Oratory, who does Mabel Tolkien meet?
(a) Father Frank Alexander Montgomery.
(b) Father Francis Xavier Morgan.
(c) Father Filipo Alessandro Mulligan.
(d) Father Frederick Xander Miller.

5. Carpenter meets Edith. How does he describe her?
(a) Very quiet and shy.
(b) Very odd and unusual.
(c) Very petite and pleasant.
(d) Very depressed and rude.

6. What happens in 1895 when Mabel and the boys return to England for a visit?
(a) Mabel Tolkien says she is not leaving England.
(b) Mabel Tolkien's health begins to fail.
(c) Arthur Tolkien's health begins to fail.
(d) Arthur Tolkien says they can stay.

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

8. For what was Tolkien known, regarding his personality?
(a) Having no sense of humor.
(b) Being serious.
(c) Being shy and quiet.
(d) Having a good sense of humor.

9. 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.

10. Ronald and Edith return from their honeymoon, and Ronald receives his first rejection letter for what?
(a) A novel.
(b) A play.
(c) Poetry.
(d) A myth.

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

12. How is this conversion received by her family?
(a) Fairly well.
(b) Not well.
(c) Well.
(d) Very well.

13. Tolkien had decided that in order to create a new language he would also have to create what?
(a) A new alphabet.
(b) A new planet.
(c) A new country.
(d) A history around it.

14. Without Edith, Ronald focused his entire life around what?
(a) His friends.
(b) School at King Edward's.
(c) Another young lady.
(d) His faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first language Tolkien produced to his own satisfaction was _____________, a complex language based on the Finnish vocabulary.

2. Did Father Francis accept the news of the engagement?

3. In the spring of 1904 Mabel is diagnosed with what?

4. Why does Mabel have to be hospitalized?

5. North Oxford had become a community of academics, their wives, and families who lived where?

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