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

2. What sends 3 of the 5 Black Riders away as Frodo and Glorfindel are rushing to Rivendell?
(a) Aragorn.
(b) An elven spell.
(c) The river.
(d) A dragon.

3. What reaction does Strider have to Frodo's accidental disappearance that is suspicious to Sam?
(a) He is not at all surprised.
(b) He seems angry.
(c) He knows Frodo's name.
(d) He tries to take the ring by force.

4. What does Frodo do when he sees his friends in danger in the Barrow?
(a) He uses the elven sword to fight for them.
(b) He runs around blindly trying to save them.
(c) He is paralyzed in fear and passes out.
(d) He sings a call for Tom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gollum gain possession of the ring long ago?

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 does Strider say is the cost of his information when Frodo questions him in the Prancing Pony?

5. What does Frodo see crawling to his friends when he awakes in the burrow?

(see the answer key)

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