Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
20 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
According to Gloin, what did the sign on Bilbo's door mean?
High adventure sought. No risk too great. Inquire within.
Burglar wants a good job, plenty of excitement, and reasonable reward.
Free tea and cakes to all, dwarves and other friends of Gandalf welcome.
Meeting to take place here, Wednesday afternoon, dwarves welcome.
- 2. Multiple Choice
How did the dwarves notify Bilbo of their departure plans?
They arrived at his door at sunrise and told him it was time to go.
Balin used his knife to carve a note on Bilbo's table-top.
Fili and Kili arrived with a detailed plan from Thorin.
The left him a note under the clock on his mantlepiece.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How were Bilbo and the dwarves able to escape from the trolls?
Gandalf split a rock, which crushed the trolls.
The trolls argued until dawn and turned to stone.
The trolls drank so much that they fell asleep.
Gandalf tricked them into fighting and killing each other.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What did Elrond tell the dwarves about their map?
Only Galadriel could read it.
A second map was drawn over the first in faerie ink.
The map was made by his brother Celeborn.
A message was written on it in moon-letters.
- 5. Multiple Choice
If Bilbo won the riddle contest, Gollum promised he would...
Kill the Great Goblin
Show Bilbo the way out of the mountain
Return Bilbo's sword
Give Bilbo his magic ring
- 6. Multiple Choice
After escaping from Gollum, Bilbo didn't tell the others about...
The riddle competition
Killing a guard
How he had become separated from them
Finding the ring
- 7. Multiple Choice
How did Bilbo and the dwarves escape from the burning fir trees?
Eagles came and flew them to safety
They rode off on the backs of giant spiders
Beorn attacked the goblins and drove them off
Gandalf conjured a rainstorm
- 8. Multiple Choice
Beorn, who was a skin-changer, sometimes took the form of a...
Sharp-eyed facon
Huge black bear
Silver-tailed fox
Large white horse
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why did bomber fall fast asleep inside Mirkwood?
He rested inside an elvish fire-ring
He was bitten by a snake
He ate some berries along the path
He fell into the river
- 10. Multiple Choice
Bilbo infuriated the spiders by...
Calling them "Attercop" and "Tomnoddy"
Destroying some of the spider's egg sacks
Insulting their webs and calling them "knot-spinners"
Shouting the insult "Gabblenot, gabblerot"
- 11. Multiple Choice
After escaping from the spiders, Dwalin realized
Fili and Kili couldn't talk
Thorin was missing
Orcrist had been left behind
He had dropped the ring
- 12. Multiple Choice
What did Bilbo suddenly realize during the escape from the elven king?
There was no one left to pack Bilbo into a barrel
Bilbo didn't know where the keys to the cells were kept
He had no idea where the river would take them
Bombur was too fat to fit through the river gate
- 13. Multiple Choice
What was happening when Bilbo figured out how to open the secret door?
Smaug was chasing their ponies
A thrush was knocking a snail against the stone
Smoke was curling out of a crack in the mountainside
The raven was calling to its make from the rock
- 14. Multiple Choice
What did Bilbo do the first time he went into Smaug's hall?
He conversed with Smaug while hidden by the ring
He stole a two handled cup and took it to the dwarves
He took enough swords to arm each of his companions
He found the Arkenstone of Thrain and hid it in his pocket
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of these did Bilbo learn during his conversation with Smaug?
Smaug had sharp eyes, but didn't have a very keen sense of smell
Smaug intended to leave his mountain lair to find Bilbo's friends
There was a third passage that led into the great hall
A large patch in the hollow of Smaug's left breast was unprotected
- 16. Multiple Choice
How did Smaug die?
The dwarves surrounded him and attacked him with their swords
Bilbo, using his ring, crept up on Smaug and stabbed him with sting
Bard shot him with his black arrow, and the lake covered him.
Gandalf used magic mist to put out Smaug's inner fire
- 17. Multiple Choice
The news of Smaug's death was delivered to Bilbo and the dwarves by...
Bard, of the line of Girion
Roac, son of Carc
The master of the lake men
Galadriel
- 18. Multiple Choice
Why did Bilbo sneak out of the mountain gate at night?
He gave the Arkenstone to Bard and the Elvenking
Thorin gave him a message to deliver to Gandalf
He sneaked into the camp to steal food for the dwarves
Thorin wanted him to find out what their enemies' plans were
- 19. Multiple Choice
The Battle of the Five Armies would have been lost if _____ had not arrived.
Bard and the Wood-Elves
The Necromancer and Gandalf
Dain of the North and his army
The Eagles and Beorn
- 20. Multiple Choice
What did Bilbo discover when he returned home?
The contents of his hobbit hole were being sold at an acution
His family and friends were planning a surprise party for him.
The Eagles had delivered a chest of treasures to his hole in the hill
The Sackville-Bagginses had moved into his hobbit hole
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags