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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. The small sum of money that had been invested by Arthur would only bring an income of ___________________ per week, an amount that is barely enough to sustain the family at the poverty level.
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 50 shillings.
(d) 30 shillings.

2. What is one of the many strange disturbances in the house at Bloemfontein?
(a) New hired help is brought in daily.
(b) The home is silent.
(c) Monkeys climbing over the wall.
(d) Earthquakes occur.

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

4. Where did Tolkien work when he returned to Oxford?
(a) In a library.
(b) In the school bookstore.
(c) The New English Dictionary workroom.
(d) In a Barnes and Noble.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It was during this time that Tolkien started to do what?

2. To Tolkien, this death represented what?

3. St. Philip's is not the best school for the boys and eventually Ronald wins a scholarship to where?

4. When did Father Francis permit Tolkien to write to Edith?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ronald allowed to contact Edith? What did Ronald learn about Edith?

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

3. How does Ronald spend his final year at King Edward's?

4. Why is Mabel worried about providing for her children?

5. What does Ronald think of Exeter College?

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

7. What happens during the summer of 1914?

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

9. Why does Mabel plan a trip to England? Why is the trip postponed?

10. What are the first two languages Tolkien creates? Describe them.

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