Fantasy Literature J.R.R. Tolkien’s The fellowship of the ring quiz 100% – Flashcards
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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.
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Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring. As for Bilbo Baggins, even while he was making his speech, he had been fingering the golden ring in his pocket: his magic ring that he had kept secret for so many years. As he stepped down he slipped it on his finger, and he was never seen by any hobbit in Hobbiton again. Which detail in the excerpt identifies it as fantasy?
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C. Bilbo has a magical ring.
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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. Which detail in the excerpt identifies it as fantasy?
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C. Some of the toys are magical.
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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.
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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 . . .
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Which is an example of indirect characterization?
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B. The small girl smiled shyly after completing her piano solo.
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Which line 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.
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Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring. Then the weather clouded over. That was on Wednesday the eve of the Party. Anxiety was intense. Then Thursday, September the 22nd, actually dawned. The sun got up, the clouds vanished, flags were unfurled and the fun began. Bilbo Baggins called it a party, but it was really a variety of entertainments rolled into one. Practically everybody living near was invited. A very few were overlooked by accident, but as they turned up all the same, that did not matter. What do readers learn about the setting in this excerpt?
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B. The community anxiously awaits the gathering.
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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". . . Which detail in the excerpt identifies it as fantasy?
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B. Bilbo, a hobbit, is going to be 111.
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Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring. "How bright your garden looks!" said Gandalf. "Yes," said Bilbo. "I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire; but I think I need a holiday." "You mean to go on with your plan then?" "I do. I made up my mind months ago, and I haven't changed it." "Very well. It is no good saying any more. Stick to your plan—your whole plan, mind—and I hope it will turn out for the best, for you, and for all of us." "I hope so. Anyway I mean to enjoy myself on Thursday, and have my little joke." How is Bilbo Baggins characterized in this excerpt?
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A. as determined
