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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Edith and her cousin Jennie Grove move back to Cheltenham?
(a) Edith was pregnant and completely miserable.
(b) Edith was tired of Tolkien.
(c) Edith missed home.
(d) Edith missed her family.

2. Whose words inspired Tolkien to write his great epic work?
(a) G.B. Smith's words.
(b) C.S. Lewis' words.
(c) Hilary's words.
(d) T.S. Elliot's words.

3. How does Ronald feel the moment he sets foot on campus?
(a) He is very nervous and unsure.
(b) He is unhappy and depressed.
(c) He knows the college was bound to be his real home.
(d) He misses King Edward's school.

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

5. Some of the pressure was relieved when Ronald received a scholarship titled the "Open Classical Exhibition" to where?
(a) Leeds.
(b) Exeter College.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Xavier College.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many people question how Tolkien could create a mythology without a clear presence of ________ considering his devout Catholic faith.

2. While in service Tolkien received a letter from his friend, G. B. Smith, stating that who had been killed?

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

4. In 1917, Edith gave birth to a baby boy, John Francis Reuel; the name Francis as a tribute to whom?

5. Ronald was adamant that Edith become what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Arthur Tolkien in South Africa?

2. For how long has Mabel Suffield been engaged to Arthur Tolkien? Why could she not marry him earlier?

3. Why did Edith live away from Ronald for a period of time?

4. How does Mabel feel about Bloemfontein? How does she act in regards to her feelings? Why does she act this way?

5. What happens when Mabel and the boys return to England for a visit?

6. What does Humphrey Carpenter say about the Tolkiens in Part One of this book?

7. How does the Tolkien family end up in Leeds?

8. What did Tolkien create with Eric Valentine Gordon?

9. What did Tolkien do when he returned to Oxford?

10. What happens during the summer of 1914?

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