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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 runs around blindly trying to save them.
(b) He sings a call for Tom.
(c) He is paralyzed in fear and passes out.
(d) He uses the elven sword to fight for them.

2. What do the elves do to protect the hobbits when they find them wandering in the woods?
(a) They give them weapons to fight the dark riders with.
(b) They show the hobbits a hall made of trees.
(c) They offer an escort to get them to their destination.
(d) They cast an enchantment of safety over them.

3. Who does Frodo see climbing the tree they are sleeping in at Lothlorien?
(a) Gollum.
(b) A mysterious elf.
(c) Orcs.
(d) A Balrog.

4. Why does Frodo choose to continue his journey alone?
(a) He wants the ring for himself.
(b) He knows that the Ring poses too much danger to his friends.
(c) He is afraid of Boramir.
(d) He saw himself travelling alone in Galadriel's mirror.

5. 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) Trying to hide from Strider.
(c) Rushing to tell Pippen to be quiet.
(d) Singing and dancing on a table.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is surprising about the orcs that attacked the fellowship at the seat of Amon Lhaw?

3. What does Gimli promise to do for Legolas as they ride through the forest towards Isengard?

4. What about Saruman is able to convince men to do his will?

5. What did Merry do to several orcs without any of them trying to hurt him and Pippin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gimli think of the trees in the forest that the companionship travel through to get to Isengard after the battle at Helm's Deep?

3. Who does Tom Bombadil say that he is when asked by Frodo and Sam?

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

5. What does Aragorn finally get to do when Elrond gives him the scepter of Gondor?

6. What are the Nazgul spreading among Gandalf's army as they stand at the Black Gates?

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

8. Why has Gandalf been forbidden to enter the hall of King Theoden?

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

10. Who does Sam marry when he returns to the Shire?

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