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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Valinor and Middle-Earth before The Lord of the Rings, Chapters 4-5, Ainulindale, The Lhammas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Sun years have the Valar come into existence in the present day?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 20,000.

2. What did Morgoth release during the second age?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Priests.
(c) Bugs.
(d) Dragons.

3. What did the greatest of the Ainur take on as they taught the Elves and Men?
(a) Time.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Change.

4. Which gates reappeared from the Lost Tales?
(a) Of Death.
(b) Of Evening.
(c) Of Life.
(d) Of Morning.

5. Elendil explained to Herendil that the _____ wished to set foot into the far West to conquer new realms for the race and be masters of the World.
(a) Numenoreans.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Germans.
(d) Russians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took a third of Fingolfin's Gnomes and disappeared to Gondolin?

2. Who made the pillars on which the lamps that light the world were placed?

3. What did the Ainur entering the world become?

4. What was the speech of the survivors of the free Elves of Beleriand?

5. In what year did Tolkien recount a discussion he had with C.S. Lewis, where they decided who would write stories about two of the big "plot devices" of the day?

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