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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Black Riders look like when Frodo is wearing the Ring?
(a) Tall, ghostly, shimmering kings.
(b) Black and inky.
(c) Rotten, shriveling corpses.
(d) Full of worms and spiders.

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

3. What do the elves do to protect the hobbits when they find them wandering in the woods?
(a) They offer an escort to get them to their destination.
(b) They cast an enchantment of safety over them.
(c) They show the hobbits a hall made of trees.
(d) They give them weapons to fight the dark riders with.

4. How does Treebeard describe Saruman when he takes Merry and Pippin to his home?
(a) He is the enemy of nature.
(b) He has a mind of metal and wheels.
(c) He was once a gracious man.
(d) He is a man poisoned by greed and blind to evil.

5. Why did Boramir come to Rivendell to find out about the ring?
(a) He and his brother had a dream about the sword of Isildur.
(b) He wants to prove his valor as a future king of Gondor.
(c) He is estranged from his father, and ran there for sanctuary.
(d) His kingdom is failing, and he needs power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Bilbo turning at his big birthday party at the beginning of the book?

2. What did Merry do to several orcs without any of them trying to hurt him and Pippin?

3. What does Aragorn hear while at the seat of Amon Lhaw that sends him running in the other direction?

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

5. Why does Frodo have to save Sam before he can head out alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Frodo to trust Strider after finding that he snuck in to the hobbits' private room?

2. Who does Aragorn give the Wild Woods to as the funeral march for Theoden passes through them?

3. What are the first thing Merry asks for when he awakens in the House of Healing after the battle at Minas Tirith?

4. As Gandalf and the hobbits approach the Shire, who does Gandalf decide to spend some time with?

5. Why is Sauron preparing a major attack on Minas Tirith?

6. What does Gimli think of the trees in the forest that the companionship travel through to get to Isengard after the battle at Helm's Deep?

7. What are the Nazgul spreading among Gandalf's army as they stand at the Black Gates?

8. Why do Sam and Frodo travel through the Dead Marshes to get to Mordor?

9. Where does the stone land that Wormtongue throws down from the high tower during the parley at Isengard?

10. Who does Tom Bombadil say that he is when asked by Frodo and Sam?

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