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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. What is Allen & Unwin?
(a) A printing service.
(b) A publishing house.
(c) A bank.
(d) A law firm.

2. What is the result of a friendship between the Elves and the Dwarves, as Tolkien explains in Letter #131?
(a) A decline of the arts.
(b) A decline of education.
(c) An improvement in education.
(d) An improvement in the arts.

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

4. Where does the conversation about accents take place that Tolkien discusses in his letter to Christopher?
(a) In a boat.
(b) On a train.
(c) In a car.
(d) On a plane.

5. How does Tolkien describe the alteration he is contemplating making to his manuscript in Letter #128?
(a) Specific.
(b) Unnecessary.
(c) Decorative.
(d) General.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the main focal point of The Silmarillion?

2. What chapter of the book that Tolkien is working on is he considering altering in Letter #128?

3. Who provides the main order of the letters included in the book?

4. What request is made of Tolkien after he finishes Farmer Giles of Ham?

5. When does the history of the Elves begin?

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