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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 does Mabel have to be hospitalized?
(a) She will need to receive treatment.
(b) She is very contagious.
(c) There is no treatment for Diabetes at this time.
(d) There is no one to care for her at home.

2. Part one relays details of what?
(a) Humphrey Carpenter's visit to Ronald Tolkien in 1947.
(b) Humphrey Carpenter's visit to Ronald Tolkien in 1957.
(c) Humphrey Carpenter's visit to Ronald Tolkien in 1977.
(d) Humphrey Carpenter's visit to Ronald Tolkien in 1967.

3. North Oxford had become a community of academics, their wives, and families who lived where?
(a) In cheap rental homes.
(b) In the grand mansions and suburban villas.
(c) In small, modest homes.
(d) In large apartments.

4. As Tolkien was recovering from trench fever, Christopher Wiseman wrote and told his friend that it was time to start what?
(a) Writing a small book.
(b) Writing the epic.
(c) Writing short stories.
(d) Writing poetry.

5. Why does Mabel travel here?
(a) To find a job.
(b) To find her parents.
(c) To search for a husband.
(d) To marry Arthur Tolkien.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some also believe that Mabel's death encouraged Tolkien to do what?

2. Why is the trip to England postponed?

3. Tolkien replied that he felt the club they had created had come to an end. What is Smith's reply?

4. Until the late 1800s, at what university were most of the college fellows required to take holy vows and not permitted to marry?

5. Ronald was adamant that Edith become what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ronald think of Exeter College?

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

3. When does Mabel arrive in South Africa? What takes place at the time of their wedding?

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

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

6. What is odd about the Bloemfontein home?

7. What happened in January of 1913?

8. What happens during the summer of 1914?

9. How does Father Francis feel about Ronald's engagement to Edith?

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

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