Fantasy Literature: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring — Quiz
Question 9 • English Language Arts 12
Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring. Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one , 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three , 33, an important number: the date of his "coming of age”. . . Which detail in the excerpt identifies it as fantasy?
Answer
A
Frodo is turning 33 years old.
B
Thirty-three is an important number.
C
The Bagginses throw extravagant parties.
D
Bilbo, a hobbit, is going to be 111.
Explanation
The clearest fantasy detail is that Bilbo is a hobbit, a fictional kind of being, and is going to be 111 years old. The other choices describe an important number, a person turning 33, or lively parties—details that could occur in an ordinary realistic story. So the detail that identifies the excerpt as fantasy is “Bilbo, a hobbit, is going to be 111.”
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