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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Shelob attacks Frodo and Sam, and Sam chases Gollum up the hillside, Sam next finds Frodo:
(a) In a cocoon of webbing.
(b) Breathing heavily and hallucinating.
(c) Being drained of blood by Shelob.
(d) Helplessly flailing his arms at the giant spider.

2. What scares the great spider away in Shelob's lair?
(a) Sam's box of earth from Galadriel.
(b) The sword from Bilbo.
(c) Gollum's threats.
(d) The phial of light from Galadriel.

3. What does Ioreth say at The House of Healing that sends Gandalf looking for Aragorn?
(a) The hands of the king are the hands of a healer.
(b) The elf born mortal will heal the victors.
(c) A Rangers pack is full of healing herbs.
(d) A King among men will Heal the faithful wounded.

4. What does Sam do when Frodo collapses half way up Mount Doom?
(a) Carries Frodo the rest of the way.
(b) Gives Frodo the rest of the food.
(c) Takes the Ring, which gives Frodo some extra strength.
(d) Waits for Frodo to regain strength while keeping guard over his sleeping form.

5. What does Sam hear in the bushes after he cooks the two rabbits?
(a) The forest burning.
(b) Frodo crying.
(c) An imitated bird-call.
(d) Gollum arguing with Smeagol.

6. What has Faramir been ordered to do with all trespassers on Gondor soil?
(a) Escort them to the border.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Blindfold them and take them to the court.
(d) Question them intensely.

7. Who does Frodo tell the leader of the band of men in Ithilien has been killed?
(a) Legolas.
(b) Gandalf.
(c) Aragorn.
(d) Boramir.

8. What does Denethor claim that he has seen Gandalf doing in his seeing stone during the battle at Minas Tirith?
(a) Keeping ties with Sauran.
(b) Setting himself up to be the King of Gondor.
(c) Allow good people to die for a hopeless cause.
(d) Carrying the Ring of Power.

9. What happens to Frodo on the year anniversary of the attack on Weathertop?
(a) The Nazguls all die.
(b) Frodo's wound begins to hurt him terribly.
(c) Frodo slips into a deep depression.
(d) The hobbits all get together to share their stories of the past year.

10. What does Faramir say when he hears of the route Frodo plans to take to get to Mordor?
(a) That he agrees that it is the safest route.
(b) That there are many unknown terrors along that route.
(c) That he has never heard of it.
(d) That Frodo should choose any other route.

11. Who kills the Nazgul King who no man could slay?
(a) Arwen.
(b) Merry.
(c) Gandalf.
(d) Eowyn.

12. Where does the army decide to go after the battle of Minas Tirith?
(a) Helm's Deep.
(b) Rivendell.
(c) The Black Gates of Mordor.
(d) Isengard.

13. What causes the Orcs at the Black Gate to become confused and disoriented?
(a) The power of Sauran leaves them.
(b) They see Aragorn, who they thought was dead.
(c) They are attacked by eagles from the sky.
(d) They learn that the Nazgul king was killed.

14. Who is the leader of the band of men who apprehend Sam and Frodo by their campfire in Ithilien?
(a) Bonamir.
(b) Fanamir.
(c) Faramir.
(d) Danamir.

15. Who does the leader of the band of men in Ithilien tell Frodo has been killed?
(a) Aragorn.
(b) Boramir.
(c) Gandalf.
(d) Legolas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Frodo and Sam find at the exit of Shelob's lair?

2. Why does Faramir not take the Ring when he finds out what it is?

3. What is the name of the person who is in control of the Shire when Frodo returns there at the end of the book?

4. Who is the 'Chief' that made the new rules of not allowing people to cross Brandywine Bridge at the end of the book?

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

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