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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, After the Fall of the Elves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many improvements does Tolkien indicate he has made to the manuscript for Farmer Giles of Ham?
(a) None.
(b) Numerous.
(c) Too many to count.
(d) Only a few.

2. As mentioned by Tolkien in Letter #131, when do the Hobbits first come into being?
(a) The First Age.
(b) The Third Age.
(c) The Fourth Age.
(d) The Second Age.

3. What two factors contribute to the main part of Letter #66 to Christopher?
(a) Real life and the idea of living in an imaginary world.
(b) Real life and the writing of an imaginary world.
(c) Fiction and the writing of an imaginary world.
(d) Fiction and the idea of living in an imaginary world.

4. Which character does Tolkien indicate has gained the most power by wearing the Ring?
(a) Sauron.
(b) Saruman.
(c) The Witch-king of Angmar.
(d) Gollum.

5. In what year are the earliest letters in the book written?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1914.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which school is Tolkien attending when the first letter begins?

2. How does Tolkien describe the change that he has made to his manuscript in Letter #129?

3. Which one of Tolkien's books explains the history of Elvenkind?

4. In Letter, #6, to what college subject does Tolkien refer?

5. After the Hobbits originate, where does the Dark Power that Tolkien describes in Letter #131 exist?

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