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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Valinor and Middle-Earth before The Lord of the Rings, Chapter 6, Quenta Silmarillion, Part Three, The Etymologies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Silmarils?
(a) Art supplies.
(b) Letters.
(c) Books.
(d) Jewels.

2. What does Elendil mean in Eressian?
(a) Trusty advocate.
(b) Loyal companion.
(c) Long lost friend.
(d) Elf-friend.

3. Which bodies were more mortal, more terrestrial, and less like spirits?
(a) Orcish.
(b) Gnomish.
(c) Human.
(d) Elvish.

4. The Valarindi are children created from ______.
(a) The world.
(b) The mounds.
(c) The prelates.
(d) The heavens.

5. How many years younger was Tolkien to the character whose biography resembles his own?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the lingerers called who did not follow Orome to Valinor?

2. In Q, the Valar are explained in what tense?

3. Who decided to weave his own thoughts into the music?

4. What fortress did Morgoth rebuild?

5. What did C.S. Lewis choose to write about in a trilogy?

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