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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - The Hobbit

Chapter 9

1. Why were the travelers actually glad to be captured by the wood elves?

2. How did Bilbo keep from getting captured by the wood elves?

3. How did Bilbo rescue Thorin & Co. from the Elvenking?

Chapter 10

1. What sight did Bilbo see as he floated along on the barrel-raft?

2. How had Bilbo and the travelers been lucky?

3. What songs did men near Long Lake still sing?

4. Why did Thorin demand to be taken to the Master of the Men of the Lake?

5. Why did the Master treat the travelers well, and send them to the mountain with provisions?

Vocabulary - The Hobbit Chapters 9-10

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. For Thorin had taken heart again hearing how the hobbit had rescued his companions from the

spiders, and was determined once more not to ransom himself with promises to the king of a share in the treasure, until all hope of escaping in any other way had disappeared

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2. They all thought their won shares in the treasure (which they quite regarded as theirs, in spite of their plight and the still unconquered dragon) would suffer seriously if the Wood-elves claimed part of it

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3. The luck turned all right before long: the eddying current carried several barrels close ashore

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4. . . . and there was a merry racket down by the river. . . . He . . . managed just in time to get on to the mass of casks without being noticed in the general bustle.

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5. The rotting piles of a greater town could still be seen along the shores when the waters sank in a drought.

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6. But lock nor bar may hinder the homecoming spoken of old.

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7. The Elvenking was very powerful in those parts and the Master wished for no enmity with him

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8. People were shouting inside the hall and outside it. The quays were thronged with hurrying feet.

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Part II:

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

___ 1. ransom              A. situation of difficulty

___ 2. plight                 B. delay; get in the way of

___ 3. eddying             C. release, give up, or free in return for payment

___ 4. bustle                D. going against the main current, especially in a swirling motion

___ 5. drought             E. wharf or reinforced bank where ships are loaded

___ 6. hinder                F. long period of time with no rain

___ 7. enmity               G. commotion, hurried activity

___ 8. quay                  H. deep hatred