The Hobbit: Chapters 5-8

What does Bilbo find on the floor of the cavern?

• A ring

• A rusty sword

• Fili's body

• An ancient book

How did Gollum get his name?

• His father named him Gollum

• Because of a sound he makes in his throat

• A witch cursed him with the name

To what game does Gollum challenge Bilbo?

• Swimming

• Grabbing fish with bare hands

• Riddles

• Arm-wrestling

Other than "precious," what does Gollum call his ring?

• A Mid-Summer's Day present

• A birthday present

• Wicked

• The Ring of Power

What is the name of this chapter?

• Riddles in the Dark

• Over Hill and Under Hill

• A Short Rest

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True or False: Bilbo goes back into the cave to find the dwarves.

• True

• False

"The wizard, to tell the truth, never minded explaining his cleverness more than once" (104). A character trait to describe Gandalf in this quote would be...

• Clever

• Obnoxious

• Arrogant

• Patient

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True or False: Gandalf tried to convince the dwarves to go back and save Bilbo.

• True

• False

Gandalf fights back against the wolves by...

• Calling light with his staff

• Sending color smoke rings at them

• Calling the eagles

• throwing magical, flaming pinecones at them.

“What shall we do, what shall we do!” he cried. “Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say “out of the frying-pan into the fire” in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

What does "out of the frying pan and into the fire" mean?

• Time for breakfast

• Once trouble starts, it never ends

• Of course, when you go through one hard thing, another comes.

• You can't escape your fate.

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