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The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

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1. What is the name of Bilbo's hillside home?

(A) Bag End

(B) Crookhollow Bend

(D) Lothlorien

2. What happens to trolls when they are exposed to daylight?

(A) They explode

(B) Their strength is tripled

(D) They become invisible

3. What is Gollum's name for his ring?

(A) Darling

(B) Precious

(D) Goblinkiller

4. Who kills Smaug?

(A) Gandalf

(B) Thorin

(D) Bard

5. Who is the master of Rivendell?

(A) Elrond

(B) Smaug

(D) Celeborn

6. What effect does the magic ring have?

(A) It turns its wearer to stone

(B) It makes its wearer invisible

(D) It gives its wearer the power to harness lightning

7. Where does Bilbo choose to live at the end of the novel?

(A) Rivendell

(B) Lake Town

(D) His old home at Hobbiton

8. At what university was Tolkien a professor?

(A) Oxford

(B) Yale

(D) UCLA

9. What posthumously published book explains the mythology Tolkien created for Middle-Earth?

(A) The Lord of the Rings

(B) Gawain and the Green Knight

(D) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

10. What is the name of the evil wolflike creatures that support the goblins?

(A) Morlocks

(B) Wargs

(D) Balfrogs

11. What two shapes can Beorn assume?

(A) Human and elk

(B) Bear and hawk

(D) Human and bear

12. Who stops Thorin from attacking Bilbo?

(A) Gandalf

(B) Fili

(D) Bofur

13. What evil sorcerer has taken up residence in Mirkwood?

(A) The Illusionist

(B) The Enchanter

(D) The Alchemist

14. What does Bilbo name his sword?

(A) Glamdring

(B) Sting

(D) Slicer

15. What is the name of Gandalf's sword?

(A) Sting

(B) Orcrist

(D) Glamdring

16. Where is Smaug's lair?

(A) Under the Misty Mountains

(B) Under the Lonely Mountain

(D) Beneath the plains of Rohan

17. What kind of contest do Bilbo and Gollum hold?

(A) Arm wrestling

(B) Singing

(D) Racing

18. What is Smaug's weakness?

(A) A missing scale above his heart

(B) A fear of fire

(D) A fondness for children

19. What is happening to Bilbo's possessions when he returns home?

(A) They are being burned by goblins

(B) They are being stolen

(D) They are being auctioned

20. Who saves the party from the Wargs?

(A) The hawks

(B) The lions

(D) The eagles

21. Who was Thror?

(A) Thorin's father

(B) Thorin's grandfather

(D) Bilbo's father

22. What two sides of Bilbo's family define much of his personality?

(A) Baggins and Brandybuck

(B) Brandybuck and Took

(D) Dale and Brandybuck

23. Where does Bilbo hide the dwarves during their escape from the wood elves?

(A) In barrels

(B) In wagons

(D) Under the trolls' invisibility spell

24. How old is Gandalf?

(A) 2,200

(B) 68

(D) Gandalf's age is never given

25. What distinguishes a hobbit's feet from human feet?

(A) They are larger

(B) They smell like pork

(D) They are woolly

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