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Comprehension test for The Phantom Tollbooth
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1
The very serious problem about Milo’s quest to bring back Rhyme and Reason
was making it past the Mountains of Ignorance.
could be revealed only upon his return,
was the demons who would try to kill him,
2
In the city of Reality, the people had
stopped believing in the city of Illusions,
stopped seeing all the wonderful things around them.
forgotten where they were and what they were doing,
3
The confusion in Dictionopolis occurred when an argument broke out between
the Spelling Bee and Tock
Tock and the Humbug.
the Spelling Bee and the Humbug
4
After the fight, Short Shrift arrested Milo, gave him the short sentence “I am.” and
sent him to the dungeon for six million years,
banished him from Dictionopolis for one hundred years,
sent him on his way to the Royal Banquet.
5
Tock had to help the princesses escape/Castle in the Air by flying them to the ground because
there was a demon waiting on every step of the stairway,
the demons cut the stairway loose,
the stairway had mysteriously disappeared.
6
While in the Doldrums, it was illegal for Milo to
count
sleep
think
7
Which of the following was not true of the stairway leading to the Castle in the Air?
was cold, icy, and slippery,
was winding, steep and narrow and had no rail,
was engulfed in fog and heavy wind.
8
Dr. Dischord’s job was to
fill orders for unpleasant noises,
sell medicine that would keep unpleasant noises quiet.
keep all the world’s worst noises trapped in bottles.
9
As a watchdog, it was Tock’s job to see that
everyone was awake during the day
everything was done on time
no one wasted time,
10
Rhyme advised Milo that, in addition to learning, it was important to learn
how to make yourself and others happy.
how other people felt and what they knew,
what to do with knowledge/understand why you learn things
11
What did Milo do with the word he held on the tip of his tongue?
shot from a cannon so that it could free all the sounds
passed around the Valley of Sound for everyone to hear,
kept in a special Museum in the Valley of Sound.
12
The place on the map where Milo chose to go was
Expectations
Dictionopolis.
Mathepolis
13
The Mathemagician’s staff
was used only for figuring and had no special power,
was covered with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds.
had a pencil point on one end and an eraser on the other,
14
Before his adventure, Milo thought the greatest waste of time was...
listening to music
the process of seeking knowledge
playing games and doing math
15
The Soundkeeper removed all the sound from the Valley of Sound because the people had
stopped listening to anything except Dr. Dischord’s sounds,
stopped listening to and appreciating sound.
forced Dr. Dischord to leave,
16
Milo was able to trick the Mathemagician into agreeing to release Rhyme and Reason by
point out that he and King Azaz agreed to disagree.
entering and returning from infinity,
saying that Azaz wanted them left in the Castle in the Air
17
The cities of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis were built by
two kings from beyond the Sea of Knowledge,
the two sons of the King of Wisdom,
the Princesses Rhyme and Reason,
18
When Milo led Chroma’s orchestra without permission, how long did the musicians play?
three days,
seven hours,
one week.
19
Who collected all the freed sounds and brought them back to the Soundkeeper?
people of the Valley of Sound,
the DYNNE,
Humbug, Milo, and Tock.
20
Milo, Tock, and the Humbug found that jumping to the Island of Conclusions was easy, but
it was lonely there,
getting off the island wasn’t as easy,
it was not an interesting place to be/people were unfriendly
21
The Dodecahedron was
a servant of the Mathemagician,
an equation with rulers where his arms/legs should have been
a mathematical shape with twelve faces.
22
Rhyme and Reason were banished from the kingdom to the Castle in the Air because they
decided that words and numbers were of equal value,
thought Azaz and the Mathemagician should form one kingdom,
refused to get involved in the fight - Azaz/Mathemagician.
23
The Mountains of Ignorance were inhabited by
invisible creatures,
terrible demons,
former residents of the Kingdom of Wisdom.
24
Which of the following was not a gift Milo carried when he entered the Mountains of Ignorance?
a box that contained all the words King Azaz knew,
a small bottle of sparkling water from the Sea of Knowledge.
a small gleaming pencil, sights, and sounds,
25
In Digitopolis, numbers were
grown in a special laboratory,
mined from the ground,
imported from a mysterious land to the north.
26
In Dictionopolis all the words in the world were
grown in orchards.
either for sale or could be crafted in the word market
kept in a special book locked in strong vaults,
27
The perfectly ordinary-sized man that Milo met in the forest claimed to be all except
a ghost and an illusion,
a giant and a midget,
a fat man and a thin man.
28
In Dictionopolis, Milo found
a word market
people shaped like letters
building shaped like books,
29
Chroma’s huge orchestra played
soundsbMilo had never heard before,
the rhythm of therising and setting sun.
all the colors of the world,
30
The DYNNE assisted Dr. Dischord by
collecting all the unpleasant noises that were created,
delivering unpleasant noises to large cities,
collecting noise orders.
31
Alex could see everything except
what was behind things
Milo’s plans for the princesses
what was right in front of his nose,
32
Before Milo/Tock,/Humbug could get to Castle in the Air, they had to answer questions by
the Out of Context.
the Senses Taker,
the distinguished Trivium,
33
Faintly McCabre was in the Dictionopolis dungeon because she,
kept choosing the wrong words for the people to use,
the king learned she was selling words to his brother
started keeping words for herself until all talk stopped,
34
King Azaz and the Mathemagician argued over
whether words or numbers were more important.
who was the rightful heir to the Kingdom of Wisdom
who owned the Sea of Knowledge,
35
Milo, Tock, and the Humbug made their way through the Mountains of Ignorance
in the little red car,
riding on the back of the Everpresent Wordsnatcher.
one step at a time,
36
Milo, Tock, and the Humbug left Dictionopolis for Digitopolis because they
couldn’t be formally released from the dungeon
needed Mathemagician’s permission to bring Rhyme/Reason back
only the Mathemagician knew where the Castle in the Air is
37
The transportation that Milo used to travel through the tollbooth and into strange lands was
a small electric car,
a small motorcycle,
a special bicycle that came with the tollbooth.
38
In Digitopolis, eating
left Milo, Tock, and the Humbug hungry,
was absolutely not allowed after sundown,
was not necessary.
39
The Humbug was sent on the journey to the Castle in the Air as a guide because he
had been there several times before
led King Azaz to believe he had special knowledge
volunteered as a way to gain favor with King Azaz.
40
Reason told Milo he should never feel bad about making mistakes as long as he
took the trouble to learn from them,
didn’t make the same mistake twice,
was able to reach his goals.
41
Because Alec Bings floated three feet in the air and grew toward the ground,
he was always able to see farther than anyone else his age,
his point of view never changed.
he was never able to see eye-to-eye with anyone,
42
The Whether Man
warned Milo not to expect things before he got them.
welcomed Milo to Expectations and hurried him along
accurately predicted the weather
43
Milo found the tollbooth
unassembled in a large box in his room
in the vacant lot behind his apartment building.
sitting assembled @ the bottom of the steps in his apartment
