The Phantom Tollbooth, Act 1

Question 1

What is interesting about the meal served at the Royal Banquet?

Accepted Answer

Everything is taken literally.

Question 2

Under what genre would you label The Phantom Tollbooth?

Accepted Answer

Drama

Question 3

Who do you think is the main audience for this play?

Accepted Answer

Young people because they are beginning to learn about life

Question 4

What is dialogue?

Accepted Answer

The lines that the actors speak in a play.

Question 5

What is Milo doing when he discovers the box in his room?

Accepted Answer

The usual...absolutely nothing.

Question 6

"People have been swallowing that one for years." is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Idiom

Question 7

Who will join Milo on his quest? (Choose all that apply)

Accepted Answer

Humbug, Tock

Question 8

From which Point of View is the play written?

Accepted Answer

Third person Omniscient

Question 9

What has happened to Rhyme and Reason?

Accepted Answer

They have been banished to the Castle in the Air.

Question 10

So far, what could be considered a theme of this play?

Accepted Answer

Time should not be wasted.

Question 11

How can the mood of the play be classified?

Accepted Answer

Playful

Question 12

What two things does Milo learn are expressly forbidden in the Doldrums?

Accepted Answer

Thinking and Laughing

Question 13

Which characters speak in a pattern?

Accepted Answer

Five ministers & Lethargarians

Question 14

Choose two character traits that describe Milo.

Accepted Answer

Inquisitive, Curious

Question 15

Nonsense, Ridiculous, Fantastic, Absurd, and Bosh all have the same...

Accepted Answer

Denotation

Question 16

Why do Azaz and the Mathemagician have strife?

Accepted Answer

One loves letters and words, the other loves numbers.

Question 17

Who is the first character/characters he meets once he crosses through the tollbooth?

Accepted Answer

The Whether Man

Question 18

How is Milo able to leave the Doldrums?

Accepted Answer

He begins thinking.

Question 19

Name the appositive phrase. A dog with a clock for a body, the Watchdog, hopped into the car.

Accepted Answer

the Watchdog

Question 20

Name the preposition. Tock rode with the others.

Accepted Answer

with

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