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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 11 | Book 1, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Frodo doing when he accidentally puts on the Ring and vanishes from sight?
(a) Trying to hide from Strider.
(b) Speaking to the bartender of the Prancing Pony.
(c) Singing and dancing on a table.
(d) Rushing to tell Pippen to be quiet.

2. What does Frodo see crawling to his friends when he awakes in the burrow?
(a) An old hag.
(b) An angry tree root.
(c) Tom.
(d) An arm.

3. How does Merry respond when he hears of what the other hobbits have experienced before meeting him?
(a) He is excited to show his bravery during the next trial they will face.
(b) He is afraid that there may be more danger involved now that he has joined them.
(c) He is happy to have avoided harm.
(d) He is disappointed about missing the action.

4. How old was Bilbo turning at his big birthday party at the beginning of the book?
(a) 150.
(b) 200.
(c) 90.
(d) 111.

5. What happens to the knife that stabbed Frodo when Aragorn picks it up?
(a) It cuts his finger.
(b) It disintegrates.
(c) It becomes hot and burns him.
(d) It becomes freezing cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so different about the Old forest?

2. What is Tom symbolic of?

3. What does Frodo find that the elves left for him the first morning of his journey with the ring? ?

4. What did the Black rider offer Farmer Maggot for information about Baggins?

5. How much time passes between the first and second chapters of the book?

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