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Assignment:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

1. Explain Bilbo's character at the beginning of the novel, as shown by his words, actions, and surroundings. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
2. Explain Bilbo's character at the beginning of the novel, as shown by his words, actions, and surroundings. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
3. Explain what sort of creatures goblins are, as shown in the novel. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
4. What does the Riddle contest and its aftermath how the reader about Bilbo's character? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
5. Why does Bilbo keep quiet about the finding the Ring after he reveals himself to the dwarves? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
6. What is Gandalf's plan to ask Beorn for help, and why does it work? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
7. How does the party's misadventure with the spiders in Mirkwood serve as a turning point for Bilbo's character? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
8. Are the elves of Mirkwood justified in the anger at the dwarves? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
9. By the time that the party arrives at Lakewood, how has the attitude of the dwarves towards Bilbo changed from the beginning of the novel? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
10. What do we learn about Bilbo from the choices he makes in Smaug's lair? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
11. Explain how the treasure affects Bilbo and the dwarves. Is there any difference in how the react? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
12. Compare and contrast Bard the Bowman and the Master of Laketown, in how they react both during and after Smaug's attack. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
13. How does Bilbo justify the actions he takes behind Thorin's back? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
14. What are Thorin's final words to Bilbo? How does the novel as a whole support this theme? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
15. How does Tolkien use Bilbo's return home to show how the hobbit has changed over the course of his adventure? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

1. Explain the symbolic significance of all the foreboding warnings Jonathan receives prior to his arrival at Castle Dracula. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
2. Define the aspects of Dracula's nature and physicality that create the otherworldly quality that Jonathan senses. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
3. How do Mina's experiences begin to parallel Jonathan's? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
4. What does the fate of the Demeter and its crew imply? How does this advance the plot of the story? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
5. Draw a connection between Renfield's improvement and Lucy's decline. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
6. What might be an interpretation of the flowers that the doctors continually surround Lucy with and the way in which they are so often cast aside? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
7. Why is Mina moved to share Jonathan's diary with Van Helsing and what does he glean from it? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
8. Provide an explanation as to why children are Lucy's victims. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
9. Examine the multitude of interpretations that can be attributed to the idea that Mina is the "star and hope" of the men. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
10. Where does Seward believe Renfield's reluctance to talk stems from? Explain how he connects this to count Dracula. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
11. Using the context of the time period in which the story takes place, in what ways can Mina's declaration of being "unclean" be taken? Explain. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
12. Hypothesize about why Dracula chose Mina to turn rather than Jonathan. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
13. In Van Helsing's place, would you have agreed to allow Mina to accompany you on your mission to destroy Dracula? Why or why not? Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
14. Compare Jonathan's voyage to the castle at the beginning of the book to Mina's at the end. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.
15. Explain why you believe Dracula has a "look of peace" on his face as he crumples to dust. Use a quote from the text to support your answer.