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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Chapter 6 | Book 5, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Gandalf advise Theoden to go before he leaves them on an urgent errand?
(a) Helm's Deep.
(b) Minas Tirith.
(c) Isengard.
(d) Gondor.

2. What does Merry feel like as he rides with Legolas and Gimli towards Helm's Deep after the parley at Isengard?
(a) Little more than baggage.
(b) A true companion.
(c) Strangely confident.
(d) Lonely without Pippin.

3. Why are the hobbits not able to leave as early as they had planned the morning after their stay at the Prancing Pony?
(a) They are trying to hide from Bill Ferny.
(b) Merry is still unconscious from his run-in with a Black Rider.
(c) Pippen is hungover from drinking.
(d) Their ponies have been stolen.

4. Why do Sam and Frodo choose to not enter through the main entrance to Mordor?
(a) Sam falls ill and is unable to continue at the present.
(b) It is too heavily guarded.
(c) Frodo is not ready to give the ring back.
(d) They are captured.

5. What did Merry do to several orcs without any of them trying to hurt him and Pippin?
(a) Threw stones at them.
(b) Praised Boramir.
(c) Cut off their hands.
(d) Insulted them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gandalf give the history of Balin to for safekeeping?

2. What is on the head of the statue of a king that Frodo and Sam see as they journey to the less traveled path to Mordor?

3. What is Denethor trying to do that Gandalf is determined to stop during the battle at Minas Tirith?

4. What causes Galadriel to refuse the Ring when Frodo offers to give it to her?

5. What is Gimli so ashamed of as he travels with Aragorn on his secret mission?

(see the answer key)

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