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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 3 | Book 2, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fatty escape from the Black Riders when they come to the shire to find Frodo?
(a) He escapes out a back door.
(b) He lies to them and sends them in the opposite direction.
(c) He runs to the Gaffer's house and hide behind the barrells of ale.
(d) He holds his breath and pretends to be dead.

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

3. 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.

4. Who does the monster in the water outside the doors of Moria attack first?
(a) Gandalf.
(b) Frodo.
(c) Bill.
(d) Aragorn

5. Why did Boramir come to Rivendell to find out about the ring?
(a) He wants to prove his valor as a future king of Gondor.
(b) He and his brother had a dream about the sword of Isildur.
(c) His kingdom is failing, and he needs power.
(d) He is estranged from his father, and ran there for sanctuary.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who does Gandalf arrange for Bilbo to travel with after his big birthday party?

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