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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Galadriel to refuse the Ring when Frodo offers to give it to her?
(a) She has seen a vision of Frodo destroying the ring himself.
(b) She already has one of the rings, and knows she cannot control the power of two.
(c) She sees what the future would be like if she did.
(d) She fears her husband would kill her to gain the Ring for himself.

2. What does Wormtongue throw down at Gandalf during the parley with Saruman?
(a) Burning limbs.
(b) A round stone.
(c) Orc corpses.
(d) Weapons.

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

4. What gift from Theoden does Gandalf gladly accept?
(a) A place in the king's counsel.
(b) A robe of lovely white silk.
(c) A promise to unite with Gondor.
(d) Shadowfax, the horse.

5. What happens to the knife that stabbed Frodo when Aragorn picks it up?
(a) It becomes hot and burns him.
(b) It cuts his finger.
(c) It disintegrates.
(d) It becomes freezing cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Merry and Pippin run when they are freed of their ropes as the Rohirram begin attacking the Orcs?

2. What does Aragorn choose to do when he sees that Frodo and Sam have taken one of the boats?

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

4. How many doors are there for Gandalf to choose from when he becomes stumped while traveling through Moria?

5. What does Sam see in Galadriel's mirror that makes him beg to return to the Shire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the first thing Merry asks for when he awakens in the House of Healing after the battle at Minas Tirith?

2. What is the elven name for the waybread given to the companions for their journey as they leave Lothlorien?

3. How does Sam learn that Frodo was not killed by Shelob?

4. What causes Frodo to trust Strider after finding that he snuck in to the hobbits' private room?

5. What does the companionship do once they reach the light of day outside the mines of Moria?

6. Who are Tinuviel and Beren from Aragorn's story?

7. Who owns the land of Ithilien when Sam and Frodo are traveling through it on their way to the other entrance into Mordor?

8. Why does Pippin throw a stone down the well in Moria while they are trying to decide which way to go?

9. Why does the Council decide to undertake an almost suicidal attack on the Black Gates of Mordor after the battle at Minas Tirith?

10. Why does Pippin volunteer to serve Denethor when he is brought to the Stewards Hall at Minas Tirith?

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