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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - The Hobbit

Chapter 13

1. Why did Thorin & Co. go down the tunnel?

2. What did Bilbo put in his deepest pocket?

3. How did Thorin & Co. get out of the Mountain?

4. Where did the travelers go after they got out of the Mountain?

5. Identify “cram.”

Chapter 14

1. Identify Esgaroth.

2. Identify Bard.

3. How did Bard know where to aim when he shot Smaug?

4. What was Bard’s reward for killing the dragon?

5. What was Bard’s response to the Master’s offer?

6. Who came to help the Lake people, at Bard’s request?

7. Why did all the men of arms go to the Mountain?

Chapter 15

1. Identify Roäc.

2. What did Thorin ask Roäc to do?

3. What did Bard ask of Thorin, and what was Thorin’s response?

4. What did the messenger from Esgaroth declare?

 Vocabulary - The Hobbit Chapters 13-15

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the words in bold mean.

1. A light helm of figured leather, strengthened beneath with hoops of steel, and studded about the rim with white gems, was set upon the hobbit’s head. “I feel magnificent,” he thought; “but I expect I look rather absurd. How they would laugh on the Hill at home! Still I wish there was a looking glass handy!”

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2. Mr. Baggins kept his head more clear of the bewitchment of the hoard than the dwarves did.

Long before the dwarves were tired of examining the treasures, he became wary of it and sat

down on the floor

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3. In all their talk they came perpetually back to one thing: where was Smaug?

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4. Probably most of them would have perished in the winter that now hurried after autumn, if help had not been to hand. But help came swiftly

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5. The treasure was not his that his evil deeds should be amended with a share of it.

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Part II:

Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

___ 1. absurd                           A. corrected; made better

___ 2. hoard                            B. ridiculous

___ 3. perpetually                     C. a gathered, hidden, or stored supply or treasure

___ 4. perish                            D. continuously; always

___ 5. amended                       E. die; pass from existence