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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 does Frodo do when he sees his friends in danger in the Barrow?
(a) He uses the elven sword to fight for them.
(b) He is paralyzed in fear and passes out.
(c) He runs around blindly trying to save them.
(d) He sings a call for Tom.

2. What does Strider say is the cost of his information when Frodo questions him in the Prancing Pony?
(a) That they split with him the gifts they will get at Rivendell.
(b) That they allow him to wear the ring while at the Prancing Pony.
(c) That they promise to not tell Gandalf he was there.
(d) That they let him be their guide.

3. 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.

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

5. What does Frodo find that the elves left for him the first morning of his journey with the ring? ?
(a) A map.
(b) Some weapons.
(c) Some food.
(d) An intricate piece of jewelery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Gandalf not welcome any longer in King Theoden's hall, according to Eomer?

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

4. Who does Gandalf give the history of Balin to for safekeeping?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the name of the entrance to Mordor that Gollum leads Sam and Frodo to?

2. What does the the Elven rope do to Gollum when Sam ties Gollum up with it?

3. What is Faramir supposed to do to Gollum when he finds Gollum catching fish by the waterfall in Ithilien?

4. What is the name given to the Riders of Rohan?

5. What dos Denethor do out of grief for his dead sons?

6. What are Hurons, according to Treebeard?

7. Why is Sauron preparing a major attack on Minas Tirith?

8. How was Boramir killed?

9. Who kills Lotho at Bag End?

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

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