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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 houses of men multiplied in the second age?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

3. 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) Germans.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Russians.
(d) Numenoreans.

4. What was taken from Maidros in 304?
(a) A Silmarils.
(b) Elfish books.
(c) A key.
(d) An SOS.

5. What year did Tolkien write about the legend?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Ainur?

2. By whose hand did the Dwarves come forth?

3. 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?

4. Where was Elendil from?

5. Whose biography bears similarities to Tolkien's own life?

(see the answer key)

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