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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Vanimor?
(a) Tall people.
(b) Difficult people.
(c) Lesser spirits.
(d) Strong people.

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

3. What were the two trees called that the Valinor created?
(a) Tolkein and Jezebel.
(b) Marcus and McArthur.
(c) Laurelin and Silpion.
(d) Priest and Priestley.

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

5. What development bore on how to date the manuscript?
(a) Visual.
(b) Literary.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Textual.

6. When Morgoth moved north, what was broken between the earth and water?
(a) Symmetry.
(b) Breaks.
(c) Lines.
(d) Divisions.

7. What was the final scene that shows the legend that Tolkien intended to write about?
(a) The Rise of Avalon.
(b) The Beginning of Paradise.
(c) The Death of Love.
(d) The Downfall of Numenor.

8. What were the Numenoreans not obsessed with?
(a) Life.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Joy.

9. Which document showed the Numenoreans interested in long life?
(a) Early one.
(b) Later one.
(c) Last one.
(d) Middle one.

10. What were the two trees the Valinor created made of?
(a) Gold and silver.
(b) White and black.
(c) Copper and zinc.
(d) Platinum and silver.

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

12. The Valar did not measure time until what was completed?
(a) VMF - 290.
(b) VMF - 245.
(c) Vanimor.
(d) Valinor.

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

14. What followed the second manuscript?
(a) A letter.
(b) A book.
(c) A leaflet.
(d) A typescript.

15. With whom was Oswin having a conversation?
(a) His son.
(b) His student.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tolkien intend to write a new version of?

2. The Powers that came into the world include ______.

3. What job was Albion good at?

4. Who grew old forests?

5. In what year was the city Valmar created?

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