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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a change that the adventurers notice after encountering the hunt and the white deer?
(a) The shadows in the forest do not seem as deep or dark.
(b) They begin to hear singing and laughter in the distance.
(c) They start to see and hear birds in the branches above them.
(d) They see autumn leaves beginning to fall from the trees.

2. Why can't the dwarves hear the goblins coming?
(a) The goblins have made themselves invisible.
(b) The dwarves are talking too loudly.
(c) The echoes inside the caves are too confusing.
(d) The goblins are wearing soft shoes.

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

4. What do the goblins use to beat time while they sing?
(a) Hammers and tongs.
(b) Footsteps and whips.
(c) Cymbals and tamborines.
(d) Drums and gongs.

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

6. Which of the following devices do the goblins not make (or have made for them)?
(a) Pickaxes.
(b) Trumpets.
(c) Instruments of torture.
(d) Tongs.

7. What cooking method do the trolls decide on first of all before Gandalf stirs up the argument again?
(a) Roasting the dwarves slowly.
(b) Mincing them and boiling them.
(c) Sitting on them and squashing them.
(d) Mincing them and making them into pies.

8. What does Gloin say about Bilbo that enrages Bilbo so much that he overcomes his fears and joins the adventurers?
(a) Little fellow bobbing on the mat.
(b) Our friend and fellow conspirator.
(c) More like a grocer than a burglar.
(d) As fierce as a dragon in a pinch.

9. What stops Bilbo from going forward in the dark tunnels in Chapter 5?
(a) He blunders into a dead end.
(b) Gollum catches him.
(c) He comes to the edge of a subterranean lake.
(d) He hears goblins going fishing.

10. What does Bilbo try to steal from the trolls?
(a) A purse.
(b) A pony.
(c) A dagger.
(d) A jug of beer.

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

12. What is another name for the Dwarves' New Year?
(a) The Day of the Thrush.
(b) The Hunter's Moon.
(c) The Threshold of Winter.
(d) Durin's Day.

13. How does Bilbo kill the spiders who have captured the dwarves in their webs?
(a) He uses strands of their own webs to make nooses and strangles them.
(b) He stabs them stealthily with Sting.
(c) He enrages them so much that they fall out of their trees to their deaths.
(d) He throws stones at them.

14. What does Gollum eat?
(a) Bats and spiders.
(b) Ponies and goblins.
(c) Fish and mushrooms.
(d) Fish and goblins.

15. Why did the wargs come to the clearing where the adventurers were?
(a) They were going to meet the goblins so they could go raiding together.
(b) The wargs could smell the adventurers and came to hunt them.
(c) The wolves were running away from the woodsmen who had settled in the area.
(d) The goblins had sent the wargs to hunt down the adventurers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first dwarf to arrive at Bilbo's house in Chapter 1?

2. What animals does Bilbo sense as he wanders through the dark tunnels in Chapter 5?

3. What is "never thirsty, ever drinking/All in mail never clinking?"

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

5. What does Bilbo eat for breakfast when he wakes up in the eagles' eyrie?

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