The Hobbit chapters 1-9

What famous Hobbit family is Bilbo related to?

• The Proudfoots

• The Tooks

• The Bolgers

• The Gamgees

What is "respectable" in Hobbit culture?

• eating in moderation and speaking carefully

• having lots of gold and treasures

• never having adventures or doing anything unexpected

• singing songs and writing riddles

How do the 13 dwarves find Bilbo's house?

• They checked mailboxes to find Bilbo's address

• Gandalf gave them the address

• Gandalf scratched a mark into Bilbo's door

• Bilbo wrote a letter to Thorin giving directions to his house

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What job did Gandalf recruit Bilbo to do?

• be a grocer for the expedition

• be a lawyer for the expedition

• be a burglar for the expedition

• be a leader for the expedition

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What is the first bad thing that happens to the expedition?

• The ponies are eaten by wolves

• Bilbo eats all the breakfast rations

• the ponies dump the food into a river

• Balin gets sick

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What are trolls?

• large, evil reptiles that hoard treasures

• annoying people who are mean on the internet

• small, helpful creatures that raise pigs

• large, evil creatures that rob and eat people

How are the trolls defeated?

• Bilbo shanks them

• Gandalf tricks them into arguing until the sun turns them to stone

• Bilbo tricks them into arguing until Gandalf can kill them with magic

• the trolls are allergic to dwarves, so they set the party free

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What does Elrond discover in Rivendell?

• Gandalf has a tobacco addiction

• Bilbo is great at writing riddles

• Dwarves are not that bad

• Thorin's map has a secret message

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What is wrong with the cave Fili and Kili find for the expedition?

• it is the house of a Stone Giant

• it was cursed by an evil wizard

• Goblins have a secret entrance into it

• it is too small to fit the whole expedition

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Why do Goblins attack travelers?

• to rob and enslave them

• to learn their technology

• to practice for war against the elves and dwarves

• they just don't know any better

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