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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 1-2, The Texts and Their Relations, The Later Annals of Valinor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tolkien choose to write about in a trilogy?
(a) Time travel.
(b) Guts.
(c) War.
(d) Symbolism.

2. Who was mentioned in the typescript?
(a) Germans.
(b) Jason.
(c) Jezebel.
(d) Gondor.

3. What were the 2 plot devices Tolkien discussed with C.S. Lewis?
(a) Love and war.
(b) Blood and guts.
(c) Space travel and time travel.
(d) Allegory and symbolism.

4. Whom did Albion lose after he got his professorship?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His father.

5. What aspect of the Numenoreans was attributed only to the Valar as a gift?
(a) Strength.
(b) Power.
(c) Longevity.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who encouraged the Numenoreans to reach out beyond their borders?

2. Which manuscript was set aside when the material was sent out for publication?

3. What did Albion wish was longer, so he could study languages?

4. The Annals of Valinor begins with _____.

5. For how many years did bliss rule while Morgoth was dark?

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