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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Gandalf give the history of Balin to for safekeeping?
(a) Legolas.
(b) Elrond.
(c) Aragorn.
(d) Gimli.

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) Their ponies have been stolen.
(c) They are trying to hide from Bill Ferny.
(d) Pippen is hungover from drinking.

3. As they are forming the fellowship, what does Gandalf say will often suceed when bravery will not?
(a) Love.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Pride.
(d) Pressure.

4. Who is the first to offer to take the ring to be destroyed, but is refused?
(a) Bilbo.
(b) Sam.
(c) Boromir.
(d) Frodo.

5. What happens when Tom puts on the Ring?
(a) He vanishes.
(b) He screams out in pain because it burns him.
(c) He runs away with it laughing.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

8. How does Treebeard describe Saruman when he takes Merry and Pippin to his home?
(a) He is a man poisoned by greed and blind to evil.
(b) He was once a gracious man.
(c) He is the enemy of nature.
(d) He has a mind of metal and wheels.

9. Who is conspicuously absent from the feast at Rivendell after Frodo wakes up?
(a) Aragorn.
(b) Elrond.
(c) Arwen.
(d) Pippen.

10. What is Frodo's greatest hope, according to the White wizard?
(a) Sauran has emtpied Mordor to attack Minas Tirith.
(b) Sauran thinks Frodo is with Aragorn.
(c) The Ring is losing its power.
(d) Frodo is so small that he will not fall in the path of the great eye.

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

12. What does Aragorn find in Weathertop that lets him know that Gandalf was there recently?
(a) A note scratched on a rock.
(b) The remains of a campfire.
(c) A strip from Gandalf's robe,
(d) Some foot prints.

13. 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) Trying to hide from Strider.
(d) Singing and dancing on a table.

14. Why does Frodo have to save Sam before he can head out alone?
(a) He knows that he can trust Sam to not try to take the Ring.
(b) Sam is his best friend.
(c) He is afraid to be alone.
(d) Sam is drowning.

15. What is so valuable about the cloaks that the elves give the companions as they leave Lothlorien?
(a) They will grow or shrink to fit the person wearing them.
(b) They will never tear.
(c) They will never be cold while wearing them.
(d) They can blend into the background.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frodo see climbing the tree they are sleeping in at Lothlorien?

2. What does Gandalf do when he is rebuked by Theodyn as they enter his hall?

3. What pulls Gandalf down into the abyss with the Balrog?

4. What news does Legolas share during the council of the ring that is upsetting to Gandalf?

5. What does Aragorn hear while at the seat of Amon Lhaw that sends him running in the other direction?

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