chapter 8 The Hobbit reading quiz

The MOOD illustrated in the beginning of the chapter (as seen in the lines below) could best be described as (choose 2)

"Soon the light at the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and hte quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened... The natiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark, dense combwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them...[At night] it became pitch-dark -- not what you call pitch-dark, but really pitch: so black that you really could see nothing."

• lonely

• foreboding

• dramatic

• hostile

• mellow

Why did the dwarves stop lighting fires?

• There was no wood to burn.

• They lost their matches.

• The wind kept blowing them out.

• It brought too many scary eyes to the edges of the forest road.

How did the dwarves and Bilbo cross the enchanted black river?

• a rickety bridge

• a boat

• some magic from Gandalf

• climbing the tree branches that overhung it and were tangled together

Who fell into the enchanted river?

• Bombur

• Bilbo

• Thorin

• Kili

What happened if you fell into the enchanted black river?

• You died.

• You got really wet with water than permanetly stained your skin.

• You slept so soundly... almost like a coma.

• You became insane.

What did Bilbo find at the tops of the trees?

• humongous butterflies carrying off the biggest spiders he'd ever seen

• the biggest spiders ever known to man

• nothing but leaves of trees

• small spiders chasing velvety dark black butterflies

Which statement is true?

• Bombur didn't wake up, so the dwarves had to carry hin the whole way through the forest.

• Bombur finally woke up but remembered nothing of the trip.

• Kili woke up, but he was afraid all the time because he didn't know who the dwarves were.

• Bofur didn't wake up, so they left him to sleep on the magical path.

How do you know that the path the dwarves were to stay on was magical?

• The spider webs were everywhere around them in the forest but none stretched across this path.

• As long as they stayed on the path, they remained hopeful and somewhat joyful.

• Nothing in this chapter indicates that it was.

• Bilbo kept seeing tiny sparkling lights in the middle of the path, almos tlike some wizard had left "breadcrumbs" to be followed.

Why did the dwarves decide to leave the path?

• They wanted to join the merriment of an elf party.

• A huge spider chased them off the path.

• They were starving.

• Who knows? They were just plain stupid.

Why did Bilbo name his "sword"?

• It signified a change (growth) of his personality towards becoming a hero.

• He didn't. Thorin did after Bilbo killed thousands of huge spiders.

• It was Balin's idea because as the dwarf who liked Bilbo the most, he wanted to make Bilbo feel confident in himself.

• The spider Bilbo killed called it "Sting!" when Bilbo stuck it in the spider's head and killed it.