The Hobbit chapter 2 vocabulary quiz

What does the term "ambling" refer to in the context of movement?

• Running quickly

• Walking leisurely, specifically a horse trotting with the legs on the same side of the body moving together

• Jumping repeatedly

• Swimming smoothly

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What is the meaning of "cavalcade" as used in descriptions of processions?

• A quiet gathering

• A musical performance

• A procession of persons riding on horses, in horse-drawn carriages, in cars, etc.

• A debate among scholars

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which word describes the act of filling or building something up again?

• Plundering

• Replenishing

• Scuttling

• Wroughting

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

What does "necromancer" refer to?

• A type of ancient script

• A historical warrior

• A sorcerer, specifically one involved with the dark arts

• A mythical creature

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which term is used to describe something that is essential or necessary?

• Incantation

• Requisite

• Esteemed

• Inquisitive

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.6

What does the word "witless" mean as used in Chapter 2 of "The Hobbit"?

• Extremely intelligent

• Having lost the ability to think

• Full of clever humor

• Quick to react

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Match the following

• to pay

• wrought

• inclined to ask questions: curious

• defray

• to take by force or fraud

• purloined

• stolen

• inquisitive

• made using art, beaten out of metal

• plunder

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"At first they has passed through hobbit-lands, a wide respectable country inhabited by decent folk, with good roads, an inn or two, and now and then a dwarf or a farmer _____ by on business."

• purloined

• ambling

• replenishing

• wrought

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"These look like good blades...They were not made by any troll nor by any smith among men in these parts and days..."

Which word below can be substituted for the underlined word?

• esteemed

• ambled

• replenished

• wrought

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Gandalf was riding a "splendid white horse ", showing that he was the most ____ among

the traveling party.

• esteemed

• inquisitive

• purloined

• paraphernalia

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4