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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals set up the dinner table and light the lamps in Beorn's hall?
(a) Bees, eagles and enslaved wolves.
(b) Sheep, cattle and cats.
(c) Bears, boars and oxen.
(d) Ponies, dogs and sheep.

2. What foodstuffs do the adventurers take from the troll's cave for breakfast?
(a) Cheese, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes.
(b) Ale, bread, cheese and bacon.
(c) Mutton bones, mince pies and sausages.
(d) Bacon, beer, rabbit pie, and apples.

3. Where does Bilbo hide while the trolls are fighting and arguing?
(a) In a bush.
(b) Under a sack.
(c) In a tree trunk.
(d) In the trolls' cave.

4. What animals do the adventurers see quite frequently in the early stages of their journey through Mirkwood?
(a) Wild boars.
(b) Black squirrels.
(c) Deer.
(d) Poisonous snakes.

5. Who is supposed to ride in the boat with Bombur?
(a) Dwalin.
(b) Bofur.
(c) Bilbo.
(d) Kili.

6. What was the name of Bilbo's mother?
(a) Belladonna Took.
(b) Bluebell Belladonna.
(c) Rosemary Took.
(d) Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

7. What is obviously magical about Gandalf's sword Glamdring (Foe-hammer)?
(a) It becomes invisible when the owner is in danger.
(b) It burns blue when goblins are nearby.
(c) It cannot be taken out of the owner's hand unless the owner is killed.
(d) It emits a high-pitched screeching sound when it kills goblins.

8. What wakes Bilbo up from his sleep after he realizes he is alone in Chapter 8, after coming across the elves' feast?
(a) The hunting horn of the elf king.
(b) The shouts and cries of the dwarves.
(c) A high-pitched buzzing noise made by a fly attempting to escape from the spiders.
(d) A spider, which is trying to wrap him up in sticky thread.

9. What colors of flame does Gandalf use to drive the wolves back with?
(a) Green, black and white.
(b) Blue, red and green.
(c) Blue, white and purple.
(d) Red, yellow and orange.

10. What nearly gives Bilbo's presence away to the men steering the barrels in spite of the invisibility conferred on him by the ring?
(a) He bumps into the men quite frequently.
(b) His shadow in the torchlight.
(c) His weight presses the barrels lower in the water.
(d) His wet footprints and his sneezing.

11. What does Bilbo take from the trolls' hoard of loot?
(a) A knife big enough to serve him as a short sword.
(b) A long beautiful sword in a jewelled scabbard.
(c) A large, clumsy key.
(d) A pot full of gold coins.

12. What was the final fate of the ponies?
(a) The goblins used them to draw carts in the mines.
(b) They starved to death.
(c) The goblins ate them.
(d) They escaped back to Rivendell.

13. What is unusual or rare about Elrond's ancestry?
(a) He is half elf and half human.
(b) He is half human and half goblin.
(c) He is half human and half hobbit.
(d) He is half elf and half goblin.

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

15. How does Beorn find out that Gandalf's story is true?
(a) His bees bring him the news.
(b) He finds the burnt wolf-glade and also forces a captive warg and goblin to tell him.
(c) He finds the dead body of the Great Goblin.
(d) The Lord of the Eagles tells him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the English translation for the names of the swords (Orcrist and Glamdring) that Thorin and Gandalf now own?

2. What is the answer to Bilbo's first riddle?

3. What is Beorn doing when Gandalf and Bilbo arrive at his house?

4. What is the goblin name for Thorin's sword?

5. What does Bilbo think the eagles will do to him at first?

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