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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. Ronald managed to fit in with the help of some fellow ___________.
(a) Young men.
(b) Freshmen.
(c) Protestant students.
(d) Catholic students.

2. What will Mabel do about housing?
(a) She will buy a home.
(b) She will look for an inexpensive house to rent.
(c) She will stay with a friend.
(d) She will stay with her in-laws.

3. Mabel decides to convert to what religion?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Catholicism
(d) Hinduism.

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

5. Tolkien is in the process of working on what?
(a) A new book.
(b) A movie.
(c) A sequel to THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
(d) A contradiction that appears in THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolkien had decided that in order to create a new language he would also have to create what?

2. The important thing for Tolkien was to be able to create a remote and strange land while adhering to what?

3. Carpenter points out that in every photograph the situation and location seemed to be what?

4. Why did Edith and her cousin Jennie Grove move back to Cheltenham?

5. Why was Ronald eager to please Father Francis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to T.C.B.S. after graduation?

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

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

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

5. What happened in January of 1913?

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

7. Why is Arthur Tolkien in South Africa?

8. What is odd about the Bloemfontein home?

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

10. What did members of Exeter College think of Ronald when he came in second place?

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