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The Hobbit
Chapter 1
1. What does a hobbit-hole mean?
2. What is the hobbit fond of?
3. What are three reasons the Bagginses are respectable?
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b.
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4. How tall are hobbits?
5. How are their stomachs?
6. What colors do hobbits wear?
7. Why do hobbits not wear shoes?
8. Who is Bilbo's mother?
9. What do Tooks do once in a while?
10. Who is Bilbo's father?
11. How old is Bilbo?
12. Who was Gandalf a friend of?
13. Describe Gandalf; give at least seven details.
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d.
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g.
14. Name the twelve dwarves with only one name in alphabetical order.
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d.
g.
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h.
k.
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f.
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l.
15. What is the full name of the dwarf that does not help clean?
16. What month is it?
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17. What is on the west side of the map?
18. Why did Gandalf not get a Hero?
19. What town did humans build near the Mountain?
20. What is one worm called?
21. What has the dragon probably done with the dwarves' gold?
22. How did Gandalf get the map?
Chapter 2
1. What are the three payments Bilbo is to receive?
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b.
c.
2. Why could Bilbo not be mistaken for a dwarf?
3. Who vanishes?
4. How are hobbits able to move in woods?
5. What are the three beings sitting around the fire?
6. What do these beings like to eat?
7. What are the names of these three beings?
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b.
c.
8. What does the purse do when Bilbo squeezes it?
9. What do trolls detest?
10. Whose voice starts the argument?
11. What happens to trolls in sunlight?
12. What does Bilbo find on the ground at the site the fight?
13. What are on the swords they find?
14. Where had Gandalf gone?
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Chapter III
1. What mountains is the troop getting to?
2. What is beyond these mountains?
3. On the top of page 46, what is Bilbo feeling?
4. Who lives in the Last Homely House?
5. How do these beings know Bilbo's name?
6. How long does the troop stay at the Last Homely House?
7. At the middle of page 51, to what culture is Tolkien referring?
8. What did not come into the valley?
9. What sword does Thorin have?
10. What sword does Gandalf have?
11. What does Elrond find on the map?
12. When were these findings written?
13. When will the secret door open?
Chapter IV
1. How much younger than the other dwarves are Fili and Kili?
2. What do Oin and Gloin want to do?
3. What part of Bilbo's dream comes true?
4. What does Gandalf do to the goblins?
5. What do goblins eat?
6. What can goblins do as well as dwarves?
7. What can goblins make well or have made?
8. What does Tolkien say goblins have probably invented?
9. Who is on the large, flat stone?
10. Where had the adventurers found shelter from the storm?
11. What do the goblins call Thorin's sword, Orcrist?
12. How can Bilbo see a sword although the fire went out?
13. What do the goblins call Gandalf's sword, Glamdring?
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Chapter V
1. What does Bilbo find on the tunnel floor?
2. What does Bilbo learn about his sword?
3. What direction does Bilbo decide to go?
4. Who lives by the dark water?
5. What does this being call himself?
6. What bargain does this creature make with Bilbo?
7. What are the answers, in order, to the nine riddles that are answered?
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e.
b.
f.
c.
g.
d.
h.
8. What had the creature taught his grandmother to do?
9. What saved Bilbo on the last riddle he answered?
10. How does Bilbo cheat on the last riddle?
11. How does the creature cheat on the third guess?
12. What power does the ring have?
13. How does the creature say he got the ring?
14. How is the sudden understanding that wells up in Bilbo's heart described?
15. What is Bilbo lifted by as he leaps?
16. What does the creature call Bilbo as he runs away from the creature?
17. What are the big mountain goblins called?
18. What effect does light have on goblins?
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1. What has Bilbo lost?
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2. What side of the mountains is he on?
3. Why do the dwarves no longer doubt Bilbo's abilities as a burglar?
4. How will the goblins be able to follow the band?
5. Why does everyone climb trees?
6. What are Wargs?
7. Who do the Wargs help?
8. What has been invading this far land?
9. What does Gandalf do to the Wargs?
10. Where were the eagles from originally?
11. What are the goblins planning to do to the travelers, based on their song?
12. Which dwarf helps Bilbo yet again?
13. Why do the eagles help the travelers?
Chapter VII
1. What does lord of the eagles become in after days?
2. What do the dwarves give the lord of the eagles and his fifteen chieftains?
3. What is the Carrock?
4. What does Gandalf think he has already earned?
5. What race is Beorn?
6. Why are there so many bees?
7. What is Beorn not fond of?
8. What does Beorn value enough to give supper for?
9. What is not in Beorn's hall?
10. What is the dwarves' song about?
11. What does Gandalf tell the dwarves not to do?
12. What direction did bears not come from?
13. What effects will drinking from the stream in Mirkwood have?
14. What will lie below them when they get out of the forest?
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Chapter VIII
1. What is not across the path that is in the trees?
2. What does Bilbo see at night while he is on watch?
3. What three things do fires bring?
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b.
c.
4. Why do they stop hunting squirrels?
5. What suddenly comes from the gloom?
6. Who falls into the stream?
7. What do the dwarves waste their arrows on?
8. What two sounds does the band hear in the forest?
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b.
9. Why can Bilbo not see the end of the forest?
10. What had Bombur dreamt of?
11. What do the people around the fire look like?
12. What does Bilbo name his sword?
13. How is Bilbo able to go in the right direction of cries of "Help"?
14. What is the purpose of Bilbo's song?
15. What is Bilbo sorry about having to do?
16. What are three useful possessions?
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b.
c.
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17. How do Wood Elves differ from High-elves?
18. Why do elves and dwarves consider each other enemies?
19. What does Thorin not tell the king?
Chapter IX
1. Why do the Wood-elves not take Bilbo?
2. How do the Wood-elf passages differ from those of goblin-cities?
3. What are the Elvenking's throne and staff made of?
4. What two crimes have the dwarves committed?
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b.
5. How does Bilbo survive inside the caves?
6. What other dwarf does Bilbo find in the caves?
7. What are the Wood-elves especially fond of?
8. Who lives on Long Lake?
9. What is with Bilbo when he tries his desperate plan?
10. What season is it?
11. What does Bilbo return to the chief guard?
12. What is the butler's name?
13. What is the weak point of Bilbo's plan?
14. What are the elves being as they begin to sing round the river door?
15. Why does Bilbo no longer think twice about "picking up dinner uninvited"?
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Chapter X
1. What do the Lake-men and Wood-elves bicker about?
2. What do the Lake-men think of the legends?
3. How are Fili and Kili related to Thorin?
4. What is the Master's main concern?
5. What had not been known in the town in the memory of the oldest grandfather?
6. What two topics do some of the new songs deal with?
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b.
Chapter XI
1. How has the land changed?
2. What is the name of the top of the southern spur?
3. Who had been with Thorin the day the dragon came?
4. What springs from the Mountain?
5. What do the dwarves search for on the western slope?
6. Who does not go up to the opening?
7. What had shut the secret door?
8. What bird appears?
9. What two objects are in the sky together?
Chapter XII
1. What are dwarves not?
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2. How does this passage differ from those of the goblins and the Wood-elves?
3. What are four signs Bilbo is close to the dragon?
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b.
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4. What happens to Bilbo when he sees the hoard of treasure?
5. What had Smaug dreamt of?
6. What does Smaug call the person that took the cup?
7. How does Thorin lead?
8. What did Bilbo's father used to say?
9. What does Bilbo not know about dragons?
10. What three names does Bilbo call himself?
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b.
c.
11. What is Bilbo in grievous danger of coming under?
12. What is Esgaroth?
13. Where is Bilbo never to bring any of his share back to?
14. Who was Girion?
15. What does Bilbo see on Smaug's left breast?
16. What could the Men of Dale understand?
17. What does Thorin tell Bilbo about his fourteenth share?
18. What are the two names of the great white stone?
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b.
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Chapter XIII
1. What two quotations did Bilbo's father used to say?
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b.
2. Why does Bilbo take the Arkenstone?
3. What does Thorin give Bilbo to put on?
4. How much time had gone by since the dragon smashed the magic door?
5. What do the band eat for breakfast?
6. What question do the dwarves perpetually come back to?
Chapter XIV
1. What is thrown down and destroyed?
2. What is mightier than Smaug?
3. Who cheers on the archers?
4. Who turns to his great gilded boat?
5. Who was Bard's ancestor?
6. What does Bard marvel at being able to understand?
7. What part of the dragon is Bard told to look for?
8. What has Bard always been able to do with the black arrow?
9. Who do the people of Esgaroth want to be king?
10. Who does the master blame?
11. What has the Elvenking not forgotten the legend of?
Chapter XV
1. Who is Balin's father?
2. Who is Carc's son?
3. What two groups do Roäc saying are eager for a share of the spoil?
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b.
4. Who does Roäc say should be trusted?
5. Who does Thorin ask Roäc to fly to?
6. How does Bilbo think both the song and the talk sound?
7. How much of the treasure does Bard ask for?
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Chapter XVI
1. What does Thorin say the Arkenstone is worth more than?
2. How many dwarves is Dain bringing with him?
3. What does Roäc say the treasure is likely to be?
4. Who says Bilbo is worthier to wear the armor than many that have?
5. Who claps Bilbo on the back?
Chapter XVII
1. What is the name of the old man who carries the casket and wears a cloak?
2. What does Thorin ponder whether Dain might help him do?
3. Who is Dain son of?
4. What is the Elvenking unwilling to start the war for?
5. Who is leader of the Goblins?
6. What two types of beings are on one side in the Battle of Five Armies?
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b.
7. What three types of beings are on the other side in the Battle of Five Armies?
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b.
8. Who had not expected this sudden assault?
9. What flies lower over the shoulder of the Mountain?
10. What two colors are the banners?
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b.
11. What color is goblin blood?
12. What are coming down the wind?
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Chapter XVIII
1. What drawback does invisibility have?
2. What has Gandalf not escaped without?
3. Where does Thorin say he is going?
4. What two qualities does Thorin say Bilbo has blended in measure?
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b.
5. What three values does Thorin say more people should have?
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b.
c.
6. Who had appeared at the last hour?
7. Who becomes King under the Mountain?
8. Which three dwarves die?
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b.
c.
9. What are the two chests Bilbo takes filled with?
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b.
10. What season is it when Bilbo leaves Beorn?
Chapter XIX
1. Who had the white wizards driven from the South?
2. What has Bilbo borrowed from Elrond?
3. What day is it when Bilbo returns to his home?
4. Who are Bilbo's cousins?
5. What two things has Bilbo lost?
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b.
6. What does Bilbo call his memoirs?
7. What has Bard rebuilt?
8. What disease had the old Master caught?
9. What kind is the new Master of?
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