Part A

In Chapter 10 of The Hobbit, Bilbo saves the dwarves from captivity and hides them in barrels to float down an underground river.

How do the dwarves first react to reaching Lake-town safely?

A. They are happy and thankful that they have made it to safety.

B. They are relieved but worried about the next leg of the trip.

C. They are highly confused and uncertain about where they are.

D. They are cross and ungrateful toward Bilbo and his efforts.

Part B

Which excerpts best support the answer in Part A?

Select the two correct answers.

A. "He had a famished and a savage look like a dog that has been chained and forgotten in a kennel for a week. It was Thorin, but you could only have told it by his golden chain, and by the colour of his now dirty and tattered sky-blue hood with its tarnished silver tassel. It was some time before he would be even polite to the hobbit."

B. "Thorin of course saw the sense of this, so after a few more groans he got up and helped the hobbit as well as he could. In the darkness floundering in the cold water they had a difficult and very nasty job finding which were the right barrels. Knocking outside and calling only discovered about six dwarves that could answer."

C. "With the willing help of Fili and Kili, Thorin and Bilbo at last discovered the remainder of the company and got them out. Poor fat Bombur was asleep or senseless; Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin and Gloin were waterlogged and seemed only half alive; they all had to be carried one by one and laid helpless on the shore."

D. “'I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!' said Fili. 'My tub was full of it. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now, for hours on end—but not an apple!'”