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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 Tom symbolic of?
(a) Nature.
(b) The Earth.
(c) God.
(d) Adam.

2. What did the Black rider offer Farmer Maggot for information about Baggins?
(a) Food.
(b) Gold.
(c) Power.
(d) Safety.

3. How does Merry respond when he hears of what the other hobbits have experienced before meeting him?
(a) He is happy to have avoided harm.
(b) He is disappointed about missing the action.
(c) He is afraid that there may be more danger involved now that he has joined them.
(d) He is excited to show his bravery during the next trial they will face.

4. How old was Bilbo turning at his big birthday party at the beginning of the book?
(a) 111.
(b) 150.
(c) 90.
(d) 200.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barliman give Frodo that he was supposed to have received months earlier?

2. What do the elves do to protect the hobbits when they find them wandering in the woods?

3. What is so different about the Old forest?

4. What do the hobbits wake to after taking a nap in the Burrow Downs?

5. What reaction does Strider have to Frodo's accidental disappearance that is suspicious to Sam?

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