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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the three groups of the Quendi called?

3. Which clans were reunited and their disputes settled, after the first fifty years of the Sun?

4. What did the Ainur entering the world become?

5. In what year did Morgoth send earthquakes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the conflict in the year 347?

2. What did Tolkein do after getting back the QS from the publishers?

3. How did the author describe the Last Battle of the Ancient World?

4. How were the Ainur created?

5. How did the Annals begin?

6. What was the battle that ensued in the year 51?

7. What were the Valur or Powers?

8. What is the significance of the Etymologies?

9. How did Melko change the music?

10. What are some differences between Q and QS manuscripts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Lost Road and Other Writings is particularly effective in conveying meaning through powerful imagery. Powerful imagery to establish connections in the minds of readers with the story's characters and plot. Imagery is the picture we form in our minds of the story we read. It can involve, visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and kinetic. The author uses these imagery to translate words into a visual story that we can see in our minds. Describe the use of imagery in this book.

Essay Topic 2

The Lost Road and Other Writings is written primarily in the third-person point of view. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the first-person perspective of Albion or Audoin?

Essay Topic 3

Tolkein is a master at dramatic devices. Choose an example of metaphor or allusion, briefly describe it, and identify the technique which it embodies.

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