Fantasy Literature: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring

Question 1

Which excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring shows an element of fantasy?

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A: It was driven by outlandish folk, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods.

Question 2

Which line best helps readers identify the community spirit of Hobbiton?

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D: People became enthusiastic; and they began to tick off the days on the calendar; and they watched eagerly for the postman, hoping for invitations.

Question 3

Which line best helps readers identify a countryside setting?

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C: Inside Bag End, Bilbo and Gandalf were sitting at the open window of a small room looking out west on to the garden.

Question 4

Which line is an example of direct characterization?

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A: Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years . . .

Question 5

Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring.Many people from other parts of the Shire were also asked; and there were even a few from outside the borders. Bilbo met the guests (and additions) at the new white gate in person. He gave away presents to all and sundry—the latter were those who went out again by a back way and came in again by the gate. Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system. Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year it was somebody’s birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they got tired of them.

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C: Hobbiton is a community with deep traditions.

Question 6

Which line best highlights Bilbo Baggins’ unusual youthfulness?

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C: At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark.

Question 7

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A: infer

Question 8

Which is an example of indirect characterization?

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B: The small girl smiled shyly after completing her piano solo.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring.Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his "coming of age”. . .

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B: Bilbo, a hobbit, is going to be 111.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring.On this occasion the presents were unusually good. The hobbit-children were so excited that for a while they almost forgot about eating. There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical. Many of them had indeed been ordered a year before, and all the way from the Mountain and from Dale, and were of real dwarf-make.

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C: Some of the toys are magical.

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