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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Beorn doing when Gandalf and Bilbo arrive at his house?
(a) Chopping wood.
(b) Shearing sheep.
(c) Extracting honey from his hives.
(d) Churning butter.

2. What does Elrond dislike about dwarves?
(a) Their singing.
(b) Their love of gold.
(c) Their cruelty and wickedness towards dragons.
(d) Their long beards.

3. What does Bilbo see at nightfall as they travel towards Mirkwood?
(a) A great black bear (Beorn in his animal shape) following them.
(b) Wargs and goblins trying to sneak past Beorn's borders.
(c) The borrowed ponies trying to escape.
(d) Spies and servants of the Necromancer.

4. What is Thorin considering doing when he learns that the other dwarves are also in prison with him?
(a) Swearing to become a slave of the elves for the rest of his life.
(b) Promising the Elvenking a share of the treasure.
(c) Committing suicide.
(d) Telling the Elvenking about the quest and the treasure.

5. Which dwarf has to come to Beorn's house alone?
(a) Dwalin.
(b) Dori.
(c) Thorin.
(d) Bombur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prediction of Gandalf's comes true in Chapter 9?

2. How does Gollum get from his island to the shore of the lake?

3. How does Bilbo find food while skulking around in the Elvenking's palace?

4. What special ability does Beorn have?

5. What happened outside Beorn's hall on the first night the adventurers stayed there?

(see the answer key)

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