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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 11 | Book 1, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is so different about the Old forest?
(a) The trees are all dead.
(b) The trees house evil spirits.
(c) The trees are alive and aware of who enters.
(d) The trees talk to the people who journey through it.

2. What does Fatty plan to do when Frodo has left the shire?
(a) Take over his farm and grow rich off the proceeds.
(b) Live in Frodo's house and keep Frodo's absence a secret.
(c) Sell his house for a profit.
(d) Follow a day's length behind them to ward off any coming danger.

3. What is Frodo doing when he accidentally puts on the Ring and vanishes from sight?
(a) Speaking to the bartender of the Prancing Pony.
(b) Rushing to tell Pippen to be quiet.
(c) Singing and dancing on a table.
(d) Trying to hide from Strider.

4. What do the Black Riders look like when Frodo is wearing the Ring?
(a) Tall, ghostly, shimmering kings.
(b) Black and inky.
(c) Full of worms and spiders.
(d) Rotten, shriveling corpses.

5. Who does Frodo find in his room at the Prancing Pony as he stirs his fire back to life?
(a) Gandalf.
(b) A Dark Rider.
(c) Bilbo.
(d) Strider.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gollum gain possession of the ring long ago?

2. What has caused the oddities of the Old forest?

3. What does Aragorn find in Weathertop that lets him know that Gandalf was there recently?

4. How old was Bilbo turning at his big birthday party at the beginning of the book?

5. What does Frodo see crawling to his friends when he awakes in the burrow?

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