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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. Why are the hobbits not able to leave Tom's house the morning after Tom finds and takes them in?
(a) Merry is still suffering from the injury he received from the Willow.
(b) It is raining too hard for them to leave.
(c) Sam is very sick after sampling some of Goldberry's wine.
(d) They have run out of food.

2. Why are the hobbits not able to leave as early as they had planned the morning after their stay at the Prancing Pony?
(a) Merry is still unconscious from his run-in with a Black Rider.
(b) They are trying to hide from Bill Ferny.
(c) Pippen is hungover from drinking.
(d) Their ponies have been stolen.

3. How much time passes between the first and second chapters of the book?
(a) 7 Months.
(b) 7 Days.
(c) 17 Years.
(d) 7 Years.

4. What does Barliman give Frodo that he was supposed to have received months earlier?
(a) Instructions from Bilbo.
(b) A letter from Gandalf.
(c) Some weapons from the elves.
(d) A pint of mead from Moria.

5. What has caused the oddities of the Old forest?
(a) The Withywindle River.
(b) The strong imagination of the hobbits.
(c) The evil spirits who inhabit the trees.
(d) The spells cast on it by wizards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Tom symbolic of?

3. How does Merry respond when he hears of what the other hobbits have experienced before meeting him?

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

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

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