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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. What did Albion call visions of an alien world?
(a) Doubts.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Fears.
(d) Dreams.

2. Who brought the Ainur into the world and placed the secret Fire of Life in the heart of the World?
(a) Ainur.
(b) Tolkien.
(c) Melko.
(d) Illuvatar.

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

4. What earlier manuscript is mentioned in Part Two?
(a) Annals of Valinor.
(b) Quenta Noldorinwa.
(c) Valar of Annui.
(d) Music of the Ainur.

5. Who took a third of Fingolfin's Gnomes and disappeared to Gondolin?
(a) Tolkien.
(b) Turgon.
(c) Morgoth.
(d) Gondor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Albion when Oswin thought his interest in languages was a waste of time?

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

3. What did Iluvatar teach the Ainur?

4. 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?

5. In the late 200s, who came to power and attempted to stop Morgoth?

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