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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 languages did Albion enjoy learning?
(a) Latin, Greek, Italian, German, and French.
(b) French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German.
(c) Russian, English, Greek, Latin, Welsh, and French.
(d) Latin, Greek, Old English, Norse, Welsh, and Irish.

2. What occurred in the Great Sea appeared east of Tol-eressea?
(a) A dungeon.
(b) A hole.
(c) A bluff.
(d) A rift.

3. Whose biography bears similarities to Tolkien's own life?
(a) Audion.
(b) Albion.
(c) Johann.
(d) Elendil.

4. What setting is Tolkien most known for?
(a) Loveland.
(b) Lost Road.
(c) Middle Earth.
(d) Simarillon.

5. Who would act as eyes according to Elendil?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Audion.
(c) Elendil.
(d) Albion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What languages were not considered classical?

2. How many years younger was Tolkien to the character whose biography resembles his own?

3. Who became lustful, proud, violent, and evil?

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

5. When Morgoth moved north, what was broken between the earth and water?

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