The Hobbit Study Questions Top of Form Scroll through the page to review your answers. The correct answer is highlighted in green. Your incorrect answers (if any) are highlighted in red. If you’d like to take the test over again‚ click the reset button at the end of the test. 1. What is the name of Bilbo’s hillside home? (A) Bag End (B) Crookhollow Bend (C) Brandywine End (D) Lothlorien 2. What happens to trolls when they are exposed to daylight? (A) They explode. (B) Their strength
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In The Hobbit‚ there are many different creatures‚ and many of the characters´ encounters involve some of those creatures. The most interesting part of the book involved one type of creature that is called a spider. The spiders in The Hobbit are not like most spiders. These spiders are much larger and do not use regular insects as a food source. Mr. Baggins and his other travelers encountered these spiders in the Mirkwood Forest. They would not have ended up in this predicament if Gandalf had stayed
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those similar guidelines that every hero must confront as observed by Campbell. It is only a few weeks until the opening of this century’s greatest super hero‚ Superman‚ and his tale is very relevant to the term coined by Joseph Campbell as‚ “The Heroic Monomyth”. (Oracle) In order for you to better understand the Monomyth cycle‚ as designed by Joseph Campbell‚ the conflicts of Superman will be presented as the hero for your instruction. The first stage of the Monomyth theory is the Departure
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The Hobbit is a fictional book‚ written by J.R.R. Tolkien‚ in a fantastic world filled with imaginative characters. The Hobbit‚ one of the many books of Tolkien‚ is filled with adventure‚ by generalizing‚ the whole book is in one word‚ adventurous. Bilbo Baggins‚ the main character of the book‚ and company (the dwarves and Gandalf)‚ go on an expedition to the Lonely Mountain‚ and throughout this journey they face many obstacles along the way. Through each obstacle Bilbo is able to outgrow and overcome
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Macy Turnbough Period 2 The Hobbit Final Writing Assignment 1. Thesis Statement: Within the pages of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien there is courage‚ adventure‚ and a great change of character in Mr. Bilbo Baggins. The Hobbit starts off with the description of what sort of creatures’ hobbits are and the introduction of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is just like any other regular hobbit; he enjoys food‚ doesn’t like adventure‚ and right at the beginning says‚ “We are plain quiet
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Why We Need Hardship and Difficulty in our Lives “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines‚ but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” -Buddhist maxim. For example‚ Bilbo Baggins in the story The Hobbit had never before left the limits of the shire. But‚ by the end of the story‚ he’s off fighting goblins and helping to slay dragons. He has become a new man who isn’t afraid to face dangers‚ go on adventures‚ or go past his former limits. He became a different person
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“Luck” in the hobbit Luck plays a huge role in this novel because without luck Bilbo wouldn’t have survived many of the situations he got into. In my opinion‚ I think that Bilbo’s greatest weapon is luck and it proves very useful throughout his journey but it was not always good luck. Many of the situations that Bilbo and his friends got into would not have happened had it have not been for bad luck The first incident that I think was really impacted by luck‚ which in this case happened to be
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things from their father‚ moving on in life and going out into the world on their own. He tells them what not to do and what the consequences might be of that is done. Now that the adults have lived for a while there has been some tension between Thorin and Company‚ Bilbo‚ the men of Lake Town‚ and the elves. But as they continue to fight‚ Gandalf‚ or the father steps in. He tells them that they all have to resolve the problem and pull together‚ almost like they are all siblings‚ because there is
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Tolkien’s novel‚ The Hobbit is an adventurous tale of Bilbo Baggin’s heroic journey as he is hired to save the Arkenstone from the Lonely Mountain where a terrifying dragon dwells. Along this journey he is accompanied by some brave dwarfs and a wise wizard. According to Harmon‚ an epic includes “vast settings‚ a hero of great importance‚ deeds of great valor or requiring superhuman courage‚ supernatural forces‚ and a style of sustained elevation‚” (Harmon 176). Many of these elements are displayed
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In the Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien uses stereotypes as a way to portray the different races in his book. He starts the story off with the line “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”(page 1)‚ Hobbits are presented by Tolkien as small creatures who are similar to humans but roughly half their size of a regular human. This quote states that hobbits all live in a fancy hole in the ground and thats stereotyping hobbits. The hobbits are also stereotyped to have two diners‚ love good food‚ have hair
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